Nationality
American
Artist Dates
b. 1941
Preview
Date of Work
1977
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
Robert Wilson was born in 1941 in Waco, Texas. He studied briefly at the University of Texas before moving to New York to obtain his BFA in architecture from the Pratt Institute in 1966. Wilson is best known as a director, theater performer, and visual artist (painting and sculpting). "A Letter for Queen Victoria" is a theatrical work written and directed by Robert Wilson in 1974. Wilson used his own play, which critics described as genre-less, as an inspiration for this artist postcard project which was created 3 years later.
Additional Information
Artists' Postcards Series I
A white postcard with rows of the word "THERE" in black handwriting.
UND Art Collections owns 74 copies of this postcard.
Postcard Reverse
Text in upper left hand corner of postcard:
Robert Wilson
Speech from "Letter for Queen Victoria" Act I, Scene 4
Ink drawing
© 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