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Oversize Commercial Postcard with Image of the Matterhorn
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Folded in half and crumpled. Text slightly interwoven. Use of mass-produced commodity. Recto: Image of the Matterhorn. Verso: Addressed to: Harvard U. / B.R. Museum / Mark Haxthausen / Cambridge / Ma. 02138 / U.S.A. Return address: James Lee Byars 10 Werdtweg Bern CH 3007 / Main text: Mark come on up a Bit? / in gold. So we make the / Bet you or you alone can do / future. / By the exhibition form / the chair of the artist at Harvard / if you
Rights: © The Estate of James Lee Byars / Michael Werner Gallery
Department of Modern & Contemporary Art
James Lee Byars; to Busch-Reisinger Museum transfer; to Harvard University Art Museums 2003.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Transfer from the Busch-Reisinger Museum Archives
Title: Oversize Commercial Postcard with Image of the Matterhorn
Description:
Folded in half and crumpled.
Text slightly interwoven.
Use of mass-produced commodity.
Recto: Image of the Matterhorn.
Verso: Addressed to: Harvard U.
/ B.
R.
Museum / Mark Haxthausen / Cambridge / Ma.
02138 / U.
S.
A.
Return address: James Lee Byars 10 Werdtweg Bern CH 3007 / Main text: Mark come on up a Bit? / in gold.
So we make the / Bet you or you alone can do / future.
/ By the exhibition form / the chair of the artist at Harvard / if you.
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