Exhibition Chronology
Read the full chronology of exhibitions organized by the Archives of American Art.
Season's Greetings: Holiday Cards from the Archives of American Art
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As store ads fill your mailbox at home and spam fills your inbox at work, rekindle your holiday spirit with hand-made holiday cards. The cards featured in this exhibition offer insight into how artists imagined the holidays. Collectively these holiday cards confirm the irrepressible artistry of their senders.
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Correspondence
Julia Thecla holiday card to Kathleen Blackshear and Ethel Spears
not after 1973 -
Correspondence
Carolee Schneemann Christmas card to Joseph Cornell
circa 1960 -
Correspondence
Robert Motherwell holiday card to Joseph Cornell
1946 -
Correspondence
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt Christmas card to Arthur Danto
1992 -
Correspondence
Bernard Childs Christmas card to Eugenie Gershoy
1981 -
Correspondence
Galeria Bonino holiday card containing a work by Fletcher Chapman Benton titled Miniature synchronetic C 553-OR
1969 -
Correspondence
Dorothy & Irwin Hoffman Christmas card
1949 -
Correspondence
Frank di Gioia holiday card
1957 -
Correspondence
F. Douglas Greenbowe Christmas card to unidentified recipient
ca. 1950 -
Photograph
Mario Carreño with sketch
1930 -
Correspondence
Pablo Cano, Miami, Fla. Christmas card to Helen L. Kohen, Miami, Fla.
1989 -
Correspondence
Arturo Rodríguez Christmas card to Helen L. Kohen
not before 1982
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