RICHARD PRINCE — Dude Ranch Nurse, 2002 / Spiritual America, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2007

Museum postcard, Richard Prince, Dude Ranch Nurse, 2002. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2007. Offset-printed colour postcard, 15.2 × 10.8 cm. Colour reproduction to recto; printed exhibition and object details, barcode, and Guggenheim Museum logo to verso. Printed in USA. Reproduces Dude Ranch Nurse, 2002, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, 80 × 52 inches. Collection of Julie and Edward J. Minskoff; courtesy Gagosian Gallery; © 2007 Richard Prince, courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York.

Original Guggenheim postcard issued in connection with Richard Prince: Spiritual America, the artist’s major 2007–08 retrospective in New York. The recto reproduces Dude Ranch Nurse, 2002, from Prince’s Nurse series, where pulp medical-romance imagery is enlarged, masked, and reprocessed through painting. In postcard form, the image returns to circulation as a small institutional object: artwork, museum, barcode, caption, address field.

A clean example of Prince’s image-world moving through another system — from pulp cover to painting, from painting to retrospective, from retrospective to museum-shop card.

Condition: Very good. Light handling wear and minor surface marks consistent with museum shop ephemera. Unposted. Ships flat with protective backing; UK and international shipping available.