Christmas card sent by Surrealist artist and poet Kay Sage to Eleanor Howland Bunce (1959).Every wonder what kind of Christmas cards artists send to their family and friends? Well, the Smithsonian-Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture is currently showing over 100 personal holiday cards made by artists.
If you can't make it to this interesting exhibition you can browse their online image gallery, including beautiful work by Alexander Calder, Frederick Hammersley and Noche Christ, to name but a few.
If you can't make it to this interesting exhibition you can browse their online image gallery, including beautiful work by Alexander Calder, Frederick Hammersley and Noche Christ, to name but a few.
Alexander Calder borrowed imagery from his Cirque Calder, a wire-sculpture circus, to create this playful card in 1930.
Frederick Hammersley used his keen sense of colour and precisionist style to create this screen-printed Christmas card design. No date.
Noche Crist, an artist who lived in Washington, D.C., sent this screen-printed image of the C&O Canal in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood to fellow D.C.-based artist Prentiss Taylor in 1962.
Found via Covenger + Kester.
