BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Handmade Holiday Cards

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Handmade Holiday Cards:

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Description of Pictures: Handmade Holiday Cards from the Archives of American Art
November 27, 2013 – January 5, 2014
The cards featured in this exhibition -- selected from the hundreds in the Archives of American Art's collections -- reveal how artists imagined the holidays through whimsical watercolors, quirky collages, and cheerful prints and drawings. These handmade cards confirm the irrepressible artistry of their senders and evoke the gift-giving spirit of the holiday season.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. HHC_131209_001.JPG: Handmade holiday cards The Smithsonian Archives of American Art holds in its collections hundreds of handmade holiday cards. The cards featured in this exhibition reveal how artists imagined the holidays through whimsical watercolors, quirky collages, and cheerful prints and drawings. These handmade cards confirm the irrepressible artistry of their senders and evoke the gift-giving spirit of the holiday season.
2. HHC_131209_014.JPG: Alexander Calder, unsent, 1929: Influential sculptor and kinetic artist Alexander "Sandy" Calder (1898-1976) in the New Year of 1930 by sending a cheerful linocut of himself jiggling arm in arm with Baby New Year. The card hints at the lively character of the work he was making while living in Paris from 1926 to 1933.
3. HHC_131209_036.JPG: Ray Johnson to Helen DeMott, ca 1965
4. HHC_131209_042.JPG: Nassos Daphnis to George Constant, ca 1965
5. HHC_131209_047.JPG: Lyonel Feininger to George Constant, ca 1952
6. HHC_131209_054.JPG: Abril Lemarque, unsent, 1930
7. HHC_131209_066.JPG: John Lennon and Yoko Ono to Joseph Cornell, 1971: John Lennon (1940-1980) and Yoko Ono (b 1933) released the song "Happy XMas (War is Over)" in 1971 as a musical protest against American combat in Vietnam. In accordance with the lyrics, the couple sent this postcard as a Christmas greeting to artist Joseph Cornell.
8. HHC_131209_070.JPG: Peter Bardazzi to Dorothy Miller, 1976
9. HHC_131209_081.JPG: Minoru Niizuma to Dorothy Miller, ca 1971
10. HHC_131209_087.JPG: Xu Bing to Raymond Gloeckler, ca 1990: In 1989 students across China demonstrated against the Communist government's martial laws enacted at the expense of human rights. As a form of protest, artist Xu Bing (b 1955) created "A Book from the Sky" (1987-91). He gifted a page from the work to his art instructor Raymond Gloeckler. The apparent Chinese characters are not really Chinese at all; rather they are "characters" that Xu created to challenge conventional structures of language, authenticity, and power.
11. HHC_131209_092.JPG: Kay Sage to Eleanor Howland Bunce, 1962
12. HHC_131209_098.JPG: Robert Motherwell to Joseph Cornell, 1945
13. HHC_131209_105.JPG: Jean Gerometta to Kathleen Blackshear, undated
14. HHC_131209_117.JPG: handmade holiday cards from the Archives of American Art
15. HHC_131209_119.JPG: Howard Mandel to Ralph Fabri, 1973
16. HHC_131209_124.JPG: Marilyn Brownell to James Mullen, 1974
17. HHC_131209_129.JPG: Don Baum to Kathleen Blackshear, ca 1965
18. HHC_131209_140.JPG: Richard Tuttle to Samuel Wagsaff, ca 1970
19. HHC_131209_147.JPG: Wallace Berman to Jay DeFeo, 1970
20. HHC_131209_154.JPG: Helen Frankenthaler to Theodoros Stamos, 1960
21. HHC_131209_161.JPG: Mike Bidlo to Leo Castelli, ca 1990
22. HHC_131209_173.JPG: Charles Burchfield to Louise Burchfield, 1933
23. HHC_131209_179.JPG: Robert Indiana to Dorothy Miller, 1964: The "LOVE" motif by Robert Indiana (b 1928) originated as a holiday card in 1964. One recipient of this card was Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) curator Dorothy Miller. The following year, MoMA commissioned from Indiana a more colorful version of the design for its holiday-card line. Today large-scale LOVE sculptures and found in numerous cities throughout the world.
24. HHC_131209_189.JPG: Milton Avery to Fred and Adelaide Morris Gardner, ca 1939
25. HHC_131209_196.JPG: Hale Woodruff to James Mullen, 1972
26. HHC_131209_203.JPG: Don Flavin to Andrew Bucci, 1963
27. HHC_131209_215.JPG: "The Magnificent Pretty Boy" to Chuck and Jan Rosenak, ca 2000
28. HHC_131209_222.JPG: Andrew Bucci to Kathleen Blackshear and Ethel Spears, 1957
29. HHC_131209_229.JPG: Kathleen Blackshear and Ethel Spears to Andrew Bucci, 1964
30. HHC_131209_237.JPG: Nickolas Muray, unsent, 1941
31. HHC_131209_249.JPG: Frances Foote to Prentiss Taylor, undated
32. HHC_131209_255.JPG: Philip Guston to Dorothy Miller, ca 1972
33. HHC_131209_264.JPG: Ad Reinhardt, unsent, ca 1945
34. HHC_131209_271.JPG: Ida Proper to Julie Hudson, 1929
35. HHC_131209_277.JPG: Marguerite and William Zorach to Antoinette Kraushaar, 1926
36. HHC_131209_284.JPG: Janet LaSalle to Kathleen Blackshear and Ethel Spears, ca 1950
37. HHC_131209_292.JPG: Leonore Tawney to Maryette Charton, 1965
38. HHC_131209_298.JPG: Ed Bisese to Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr., 1992
39. HHC_131209_309.JPG: Gerry Badger to Samuel Wagstaff, 1980
40. HHC_131209_325.JPG: Irwin Hoffman to Milch Gallery, 1949
41. HHC_131209_333.JPG: Unichi Hiratsuka to Prentiss Taylor, ca 1970
42. HHC_131209_339.JPG: Elizabeth Davy Lochrie to W. Langdon Kihn, undated
43. HHC_131209_345.JPG: Margaret Stork to Dorothy Miller, 1964
44. HHC_131209_352.JPG: Kenzo Okada to Dorothy Miller, undated
45. HHC_131209_362.JPG: Josef Albers to Marcel Breuer, 1938
46. HHC_131209_374.JPG: Mary Blumenschein to Chester beach, ca 1925
47. HHC_131209_379.JPG: Mine Okubo to Bob Stocksdale and Kay Sekimachi, 1959
48. HHC_131209_385.JPG: Ann Parker to Raymond Gloeckler, ca 1980
49. HHC_131209_391.JPG: Robert Smithson, unsent, ca 1964
50. HHC_131209_400.JPG: Alexandra Darrow to Prentiss Taylor, 1957
51. HHC_131209_407.JPG: Julia Thecla to Katharine Kuh, undated
52. HHC_131209_418.JPG: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt to Arthur Danto, 1992
53. HHC_131209_424.JPG: Alfred Frueh to Wood and Adelaide Lawson Gaylor, ca 1920
54. HHC_131209_440.JPG: Everett Hart to Eugenie Gershoy, undated
55. HHC_131209_448.JPG: Lois Mailou to Martin Birnbaum, ca 1937
56. HHC_131209_454.JPG: Cleanthe Carr to Alfred Frueh, ca 1930
57. HHC_131209_461.JPG: Rowena Fry to Ethel Spears and Kathleen Blackshear, ca 1940
58. HHC_131209_468.JPG: Henry Pearson to Dorothy Miller, 1968
59. HHC_131209_476.JPG: Peter Hunt, unsent, ca 1940
60. HHC_131209_483.JPG: Bill Brincka to Ethel Spears and Kathleen Blackshear, undated
61. HHC_131209_490.JPG: Claes Oldenburg to Samuel Wagstaff, ca 1965
62. HHC_131209_497.JPG: Frederick Hammersley, unsent, ca 1955
63. HHC_131209_507.JPG: Rudolph Schaeffer, unsent, ca 1935
64. HHC_131209_511.JPG: Reiji Kimura to Dorothy Miller, 1966
65. HHC_131209_529.JPG: Frank Di Gioia to Dorothy Miller, 1943
66. HHC_131209_541.JPG: Lena Gurr to Ralph Fabri, undated
67. HHC_131209_545.JPG: Noche Crist to Prentiss Taylor, ca 1958
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