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Ray Johnson’s mail art piece was sent to Samuel J. Wagstaff as a joke about his dimple. Ray Johnson, best known as a correspondence artist, was the founder of the mail art movement and the New York Correspondence School (NYCS). Johnson enjoyed…

Newspaper clipping of Samuel Wagstaff is a clipped black and white photograph of curator and art collector Sam Wagstaff dressed in black tie at the opening reception of his first curatorial show at the the Detroit Institute of Arts in the spring of…

Marcel Duchamp Club Invitation is a work of correspondence between Ray Johnson and artist Joseph Cornell, posted in 1970. The piece, a photocopied drawing, depicts a topless woman laying face down on a box, straddled by Mickey Mouse. A text bubble…

This piece of correspondence art, created in 1988 by Gerard Barbot, combines a rainbow gradient with a dull brown reminiscent of very old newspapers. Placed onto a stark black background, the overall effect is neat and orderly in color, the clippings…

Carol Schneck’s Mail Art is Disposable Art (c. 1988) is a standard-size black and white postcard collage in the John Held Papers at the Archives of American Art. A photocopied picture of New York’s iconic Whitney Museum is pictured protruding out of…