Mailed Objects

Exhibition cards, invitations, announcements, and printed matter retaining postal marks, addressed versos, postage meters, stamps, and other traces of circulation. Objects in which the postal system has become part of the surface.

  • Original 1984 Gustave Courbet exhibition invitation card featuring a black-and-white portrait of a young Courbet with printed signature beneath, issued by Musée Maison Natale in Ornans, France. Verso of original 1984 Gustave Courbet exhibition invitation showing *Visage / Visages* exhibition details, handwritten vernissage note, Paris postal stamp, and addressed recipient information.

    Gustave Courbet — Visage–Visages — Musée Maison Natale, Ornans, 1984

    Gustave Courbet — Visage–Visages — Musée Maison Natale, Ornans, 1984