Billy Al Bengston mail art to unidentified recipients
Object Details
- Creator
- Bengston, Billy Al
- Subject
- Keaton, Buster
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- 1 mail art : various media ; 15 x 20 cm.
- Summary
- Front of postcard is an image of Buster Keaton and a woman standing on a dock, possibly a still from Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Verso of postcard reads: I'm stuck; $10.00 for your idea; I will pay $10 dollars for any idea I am able to use for an exhibition mailer or announcement ...
Billy Al Bengston mailed this project announcement to an unknown number of recipients. This record should be viewed with record 11705 and record 11706. - Citation
- Billy Al Bengston. Billy Al Bengston mail art to unidentified recipients, 1973. Billy Al Bengston papers, circa 1940s-1989. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- Current copyright status is undetermined
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
- 1973
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)11698
- Type
- Correspondence
- See more items in
- Billy Al Bengston papers, circa 1940s-1989, bulk 1960-1988
- Archives of American Art
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_11698
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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