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Correspondence art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1868 Collections and/or Records:

Art For Um: Easy Spirit. No.1/Jan / Burroughs WS., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-30280-31689
Scope and Contents

The recto image depicts a staged an art gallery scene. Chuck Close can be identified in a wheelchair among the four male figures and a large painting that is being hung is the front cover of William Burroughs book, "Junkie." The verso has three stamps, one U.S. Postal and two by Buster Cleveland, and a picture of shoes floating in space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Art For Um: Fat Little Girl from Ohio. No.9., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-30238-31641
Scope and Contents

Depicts a statue of Michael Jackson in front of a red car and large oranges. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Art For Um: Melancholy Infinity. No.4., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-34311-36006
Scope and Contents

One side depicts an image of a ready-made by Duchamp over several stacked poetry discs. The other side has an artist stamp made by Cleveland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Art For Um: New is Beautiful. No.3., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27223-27700
Scope and Contents

Depicts an altered image of Clinton in the foreground as the main image. The background depicts Munch's The Scream, package of Lucky Strike cigarettes, a fragement of The New York Times bannerhead, a woman with a beachball, the word "FAKE" and a large eye. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Art For Um: Patience and Fortitude. No.8/Jan., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-30275-31684
Scope and Contents

The recto depicts a blue colored man and woman, with cow heads collaged onto their bodies, standing side by side. The verso has four stamps, one U.S. Postal and three by Buster Cleveland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Art For Um: Puff-Daddy. No.5/Jan / Malevich K., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-30278-31687
Scope and Contents

The recto image is a surrealistic scene with horror figures such as Frankenstein in a field of sunflowers. The verso has three stamps, one U.S. Postal and two by Buster Cleveland, and a reproduction of a Malevich cubo-futurist male figure. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Art For Um: Soft Money. No.10., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-30239-31642
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a computerized image of a man with butterfly wings. The varient, unnumbered copy is the unaltered image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Art For Um: Special Issue Cavellini 1914-1990. Jan / Cavellini GA., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-29495-30860
Scope and Contents

The verso has two artist stamps and one postal stamp. All three are cancelled with a U.S. postal stamp. The recto is a portrait of Cavellini pointing out a young woman's nipple. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Art For Um: Special Issue. Sum., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28409-29652
Scope and Contents

This special is neither signed nor numbered. The verso has two artist stamps and one postal stamp. All three are cancelled with a U.S. postal stamp. A fourth cancellation is from Paris in 1957. The recto is a head portrait of Andy Warhol, partially consumed with flames, emerging from a desert background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996