Ellen Lesperance
When all the warheads turn to rust, until our days are done, we'll hold our mother earth in trust, for children yet to come

Artist Ellen LesperanceAmerican, born 1971

CultureAmerican

Titles

When all the warheads turn to rust, until our days are done, we'll hold our mother earth in trust, for children yet to come

Date2018

MediumGouache and graphite on tea-stained wove paper; wool

DimensionsSheet: 22 1/4 × 30 1/8 in. (56.5 × 76.5 cm)
Frame (outer): 26 × 34 × 1 1/2 in. (66 × 86.3 × 3.8 cm)
Sweater (folded in half): 16 × 15 × 3 in. (40.6 × 38.1 × 7.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Lynne Werner and Kerry Inman at Art + Paper 2019; and the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund

Object number2019.229.A,.B

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Prints and Drawings

Object Type

INSTALLATION ART

ProvenanceThe artist, 2018; [Adam & Ollman, Portland, Oregon, 2018-2019]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Exhibition History“New Materialism,” Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2018.

"Collectivity," The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Oct. 28, 2020 – July 27, 2021. [Inaugural Installation: Kinder Building 314: No Catalog]
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Inscribed in graphite on bottom edge: ALL THE WARHEADS TURN TO RUST, UNTIL OUR DAYS ARE DONE, WE’LL HOLD OUR MOTHER EARTH IN TRUST FOR CHILDREN YET TO COME.

Verso: Watermark, lower right edge: BFK RIVES / ∞ FRANCE

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