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  • Collection: Samuel Wagstaff Papers

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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…

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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…

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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…
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