Set of Six Envelopes and Their Contents Plus One Loose Leave Page Sent from Ray Johnson to Ronnie Cohen
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • loose leaves
  • printed envelope
  • black-and-white
  • 35.5 x 21.5 cm.
  • unpaginated
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Set of Six Envelopes and Their Contents Plus One Loose Leave Page Sent from Ray Johnson to Ronnie Cohen

Ray Johnson, Ronnie Cohen

Set of Six Envelopes and Their Contents Plus One Loose Leave Page Sent from Ray Johnson to Ronnie Cohen

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Set of six envelopes and their contents plus one loose leave page sent from Ray Johnson to Ronnie Cohen. Includes: (1) Ray Johnson review by John Russell featuring an original drawing of a frog in teal color pencil; photocopy of a page of ads featuring Johnsons ad "Ray Johnson no gallery;" photocopy of flyer for a group show at Batman Gallery in San Francisco; photocopy of a review of a mail art show at Focus Gallery in Detroit by Joy Hakanson Colby ; (2) a photocopy of an e.e. cumming's poem on New York Correspondence School letterhead with handwritten "Ronnie, Seasons greetings Ray" with a smily face ; (3) Envelope from Ray Johnson to Ronnie Cohen containing a postcard featuring a five year old and a squeaky mechanism addressed to Ray Johnson from Jedd Garet ; (4) photocopy of a letter from John Gruen, New York Magazine, October 5, 1970, with "Rimbaud" written on it in pink color pencil ; an advertisement for "The Up-rite Brassiere Co. Ltd." with NICE stamped on it; full size photocopy of a similar cartoon of breast types with nicknames ; (5) type written letter from Johnson to Cohen on photocopy of Buddha University "How to Draw a Daisy" dated July 26, 1981 telling the story of a neighbor who had a 1 sculpture on their lawn and a series of events that led them to attempt delivery of the sculpture to Johnson's lawn ; (6) photocopy of an article about two students, one named Ray Johnson, who were arrested in Rome for streaking across St. Peter's square, on the verso is a typewritten unsigned note from Ray johnson dated August 4, 1981 that reads: "Ronny, Before you might send the item to Jon Borofsky, could you xerox it so you have the image also? Best," ; and (7) loose photocopy of a list of names 1976 - 1980 with teal handwriting [Johnson's] that reads "those who posed."

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