Ray Johnson mail art to Hal Glicksman, 1968-1970.

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Ray Johnson mail art to Hal Glicksman, 1968-1970.

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The collection contains six pieces of mail art: five from Ray Johnson in New York to curator Hal Glicksman in California, and one from Johnson to Glicksman and John Coplans. Each piece includes the original stamped and postmarked envelope, as well as the various individual components of the mail art, such as handwritten notes, photocopied text, cut-up collage pieces, slides, a handkerchief, and a seed packet. Two printed texts refer to the New York Correspondance School. Of particular note is a work that incorporates a postcard Johnson received from the artist On Kawara.

0.5 linear feet (1 box)

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New York Correspondance School.

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Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995

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Ray Johnson (1927-1995) was a painter from Locust Valley, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Ray Johnson, 1968 Apr. 17 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82223586 Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Ray Johnson is frequently referred to as the "father of mail art." He attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina from 1945 to 1948, then moved to New York. Although he worked as an abstract painter for several years, by 1953 Johnson h...

Glicksman, Hal

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Hal Glicksman curated many key contemporary art exhibitions in Southern California the 1960s and 1970s, and helped establish and foster important Southern California art institutions. As a preparator at the Pasadena Art Museum under the leadership of Walter Hopps, Glicksman worked on the important Marcel Duchamp retrospective in 1963. He designed and installed the United States presentation for the Eighth São Paulo Bienal in Brazil in 1965 and served as assistant curator for the Los Angeles Cou...

Coplans, John

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Art administrator, editor, educator; New York, N.Y.; b. 1920, London, England; d. Aug. 21, 2003, Manhattan, N.Y. From the description of John Coplans interview, 1975 Apr. 4-1977 Aug. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78306526 From the description of John Coplans interview, 1975 Apr. 4-1977 Aug. 4 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276394198 John Coplans (1920- 2003) was an art administrator, editor, photograph, and educator of New York, N...