Artists' Postcards

Artists’ Postcards featured 39 postcard-size works created by contemporary artists especially for the exhibition. A wide range of styles and media were covered, from oil, pencil or pastel, to photography and xerox. Included in the exhibition were young painters, architects, photographers, writers, a poet, and a composer. Invitations were issued on the basis of recommendations made by artists, museum curators, critics and dealers who were asked to propose artists known to be interested in postcards, and whose work suggested an affinity for the postcard format, or who were thought likely to respond enthusiastically to its possibilities. The exhibition opened at 137 Greene Street, New York, and traveled throughout the country under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.