Nationality

American

Artist Dates

1931-1989

Title of Work

Henry James, Chief

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Date of Work

1977

Medium

Postcard

Height

4"

Width

6"

Collection/Provenance

Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection

Status

Stored: FF_012_C

Location

UND Art Collections Repository

Artist Bio

Donald Barthelme was born in 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Barthelme is best known for his short-stories and later in his career he moved on to create post-modernist collages. His collages were parallel in style to his short stories by means of fragmented figurative language which made up a short story and then a collection. The postcard "Henry James, Chief" was inspired by the American writer Henry James. James was a key figure for the transition from literary realism to literary modernism, and a personal idol for Donald Barthelme.

Additional Information

Artists' Postcards Series I

Black and white photograph of Henry James with several white and orange shapes added around his head.

UND Art Collections owns 1 copy of this postcard.

Postcard Reverse

Text in upper left hand corner of postcard:

Donald Barthelme

Henry James Chief

Collage

© Artists' Postcards 1977


Text in center bottom of postcard:

Original work traveling under Smithsonian Institution auspices 1978-80.

77-78F 1-2 Produced by Publishing Center for Cultural Resources, N.Y.C.

Condition

Very good

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