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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…

Ray Johnson Mail art to David Bourdon is a photographed drawing of a horse, dated sometime between 1962-1965. The work depicts a black horse embellished with linear circles, a reoccurring element of Johnson’s artwork from his Black Mountain college…

This exclusive invitation to one of Ray Johnson’s infamous New York Correspondance School (NYCS) meetings features a repeated pattern of alternating bunnies (the designated symbol of the NYCS) and inverted black triangles. Each bunny is labeled with…

Andre congratulates Held on his collection of mail art, though Andre specifies that he does not consider himself a mail artist. Front of postcard features a cartoon signed "Willy Smacks" which depicts policemen at the Tate Gallery following the theft…

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…