Ray Johnson.
Original Mail Art Envelope
with three Xerox sheets.
Locust Valley: Ray Johnson, 1972.
Envelope with three sheets.
4 3/16" x 6 14/16".
Very Good.
Envelope with tear on right side.
Postal markings, soiling
minor creasing and edge wear to envelope.
Printed company envelope address crossed out by hand.
Ray Johnson's address rubber-stamped.
Sheets, folded twice, with toning.
Mailed to fellow mail (and Fluxus) artist Ken Friedman.
1.
Jackson Pollack.
Xerox sheet of a collage.
Twice-folded,
Pollack's figure, a frog, and "Collage by Ray Johnson" rubber stamp are superimposed upon Hilton Kramer's New York Times review
of B.H. Friedman's biography.
2.
Untitled sheet with text
and bunny heads of Jill Johnston and Andrew Wylie.
"We're all here, what's the phone ringing for."
3.
Walt Disney Girl Meeting. John Evans 40th Birthday. Tiger Morse.
Xerox sheet.
Twice-folded.
A gossipy update on an evening in the city.
