Nationality
Hungarian-American
Title of Work
Wish You Were Her (Set of 68)
Preview
Date of Work
1978
Medium
Postcard
Height
4"
Width
6"
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection
Status
Stored: FF_012_B
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Artist Bio
Joseph Szilva was born in Hungary and is currently based out of New York. Szilva is best known for his photography, painting and sculpting. He is the owner and creator of Manhattan's Surface Studio which offers numerous background and set pieces for photography. Joseph Szilva has work in several prominent galleries around the world.
Additional Information
Artist' Postcards Series II
Top portion shows a picture of cliffs next to water with green grassland on top. Areas have been painted over to make the cliffs red. Bottom portion of the postcard shows a black and white picture of a woman in a bathing suit and around her it says "Wish you were her." Original piece is mixed media.
UND Art Collections owns 68 copies of this postcard.
Postcard Reverse
Text in upper left hand corner of postcard:
Joseph Szilva
Wish You Were Her
Mixed media
© Artists' Postcards 1978, N.Y.C.
Text in top center of postcard:
Artists' Postcards Logo
Text in bottom left of postcard:
Exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, Fall 1978
Four address lines are located on the bottom right side of the postcard.
Condition
Very good