Samuel Wagstaff Papers
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Title
Samuel Wagstaff Papers
Subject
Mail Art
Description
Samuel J. Wagstaff, Jr. (1921-1987) served as curator of contemporary art at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., from 1961 to 1968, and a curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts from 1968 to 1971. In addition to his curatorial work, Samuel J. Wagstaff was a noted collector. he Samuel J. Wagstaff papers comprise 6.2 linear feet of correspondence, writings, miscellaneous records, printed material, and photographs documenting Wagstaff's professional and personal relationships with artists and photographers, his career as an art curator, and his position as an important collector of paintings and photographs. Correspondence with artists and others such as curators, arts organizations, galleries, and museums reflects the diversity of contemporary American art and includes individuals associated with the abstract expressionist, Fluxus, pop, earth, conceptual, and minimalist art movements. The collection is also rich in "mail art," which Wagstaff both sent and received.
Creator
Samuel Wagstaff
Source
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Publisher
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/samuel-wagstaff-papers-6939/more
Date
1932-1985
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Collection Items
First Meeting of the New York Correspondance [sic] School
![First Meeting of the New York Correspondance [sic] School](https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/26345/archive/square_thumbnails/1a0d9d2524ceec1bd32125ce1390da64.jpg?Expires=1715817600&Signature=EHJ36cG5YWiTS5ebSxr-MuF1wTx%7EKaNovbHy5XupLhdBnFIWUeZOn-snXsGglma9J0kPJRz7iOauC0fTUVhKK8Yax8QQ6BfCcBaUvX4PvA5BN2u9gaIHcdw9%7EMxyU4qqwm-YWa9uyHG5hhj8-2Lt7i34H6XlUtg6GPbuUobvvRrV-I4aaOw2GclWihcHWeqZYMmUmZg24Y789W0k3i3zK5vMEj6Lc751nVwu3cK52dQ1Q%7E9k0JtNjqmEy4SM%7EsbptDyXtrhWrABst8y8UaDALdNzNCUkbjPz3Ow8nL0geaOzxNYtHswTyjf%7EtEX3xw96XTYL1ImoAwUmAXLAjIdYxQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM "First Meeting of the New York Correspondance [sic] School")
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…
Newspaper clipping of photo of Samuel Wagstaff, 1969
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…
Mail Art to Sam Wagstaff
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…