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Love Letter to Lévi-Strauss
Love Letter to Lévi-Strauss

Love Letter to Lévi-Strauss

Artist Gina Gilmour American, born 1948
Date1976
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions62 1/2 x 69 in. (158.8 x 175.3 cm)
Frame: 63 3/4 x 70 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. (161.9 x 178.4 x 6.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object numberG.76.24.1
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated Charlotte, NC, 1976; collection of the artist; sold to NCMA, 1976.Published ReferencesThirty-Ninth Annual North Carolina Artists Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1976), cat. no. 39, illus. (b-w).

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1983), illus. (b-w) 293.

United States Embassy Copenhagen: ART in Embassies Exhibition (Washington, DC: ART in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State, 2007), illus. (color), 14 and front cover.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Thirty-Ninth Annual North Carolina Artists Exhibition," December 2, 1976–January 9, 1977, cat. no. 39, illus. (b-w) (Gold Medal award).

Winston-Salem, NC, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, January 7–24, 1978.

Princeton, NJ, E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc., "The Art of North Carolina," April 25–May 31, 1981; Durham, NC, Duke University Museum of Art, June 11–July 29, 1981.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Paintings with a Social Conscience from the Permanent Collection," February 7–July 5, 1987.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery, "Kaleidoscope: Pattern in Art," September 15, 1988–June 25, 1989.

United States Embassy Copenhagen, ART in Embassies Program, July 14, 2006–February 6, 2009.
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