• Richard Prince, Spiritual America, exhibition announcement postcard recto. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2007. Colour reproduction of a nurse painting: a female figure in a white surgical mask and cap against a dark background, eyes visible above the mask, gazing directly forward. Partial text visible at top reads 'NURSE IN HOLLYWOOD' in embossed or relief lettering. Title 'RICHARD PRINCE / SPIRITUAL AMERICA' in orange sans-serif type below the image, with 'Guggenheim' museum logo in an orange band at foot.
  • Richard Prince, Spiritual America, exhibition announcement postcard verso. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2007. Cream card with standard postcard layout: address lines and stamp area to right, GoCard Postcard Advertising logo upper right. Left column: 'RICHARD PRINCE / SPIRITUAL AMERICA' in bold caps; 'Through January 9' in small type. Sponsor credits: 'Made possible by Deutsche Bank' with Deutsche Bank logo; additional supporters listed including Barbara Gladstone, The Stephenson and Penn Bunn Foundation, Mi
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Guggenheim Museum

Richard Prince — Spiritual America

Richard Prince — Spiritual America

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2007
Exhibition announcement postcard
15 × 10.5 cm
Offset-printed card; colour image to recto, exhibition details and postal layout to verso
Exhibition dates: 28 September 2007 – 9 January 2008

Condition: Very good. Light handling wear and faint surface marks consistent with printed exhibition ephemera.

Original postcard issued for Richard Prince: Spiritual America at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. The exhibition was Prince’s first comprehensive retrospective since 1992 and brought together photography, painting, sculpture, and works on paper across the Cowboys, Jokes, Girlfriends, Nurses, Hoods, and related series.

The recto reproduces one of Prince’s nurse images: a pulp-fiction figure isolated, masked, and reprocessed through the museum postcard. The card functions as a small institutional relay for a practice built around repetition, appropriation, American image culture, and the conversion of already-circulating material into art. Prince’s Nurse paintings began in 2002, using enlarged pulp medical-romance covers, overpainting, and surgical masks to turn the nurse figure into something both seductive and threatening.

A minor Guggenheim support object.
Image, title, museum, sponsor, address field.
A work about circulation returned to circulation as card.

Shipping and handling included in the listed price. Ships flat with protective backing.

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