Postcard from Lenore Tawney to Katherine Kuh. Ryerson and Burnham Library’s collection.
Tawney began creating postcard collages in the ’60s while she was moving between studios and traveling internationally. Though she left Chicago, the artist maintained a longstanding friendship with Katherine Kuh, who was the first woman curator of European art and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. The two exchanged mail art over the course of their long friendship.
Tawney’s postcards to Kuh are humorous, intimate, and delicately constructed, laden with meaning only understood between the two friends.
The Art Institute of Chicago houses an impressive collection of Correspondence Art. In it, there are 18 pieces of postcard art from Lenore Tawney to Katherine Kuh in the Ryerson and Burnham Library’s collection.
To make an appointment to view some of the mail art in the Ryerson and Burnham collection, contact via email, [email protected]. Or take a spin through their digital collections.
Postcard from Lenore Tawney to Katherine Kuh. Ryerson and Burnham Library’s collection.
Postcard from Lenore Tawney to Katherine Kuh. Ryerson and Burnham Library’s collection.
