Nationality

American

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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

Michael Langenstein is currently based out of New York City, NY. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania from 1971 to 1974 where he obtained his MFA. Langenstein is best known for his postcards that combine surrealism with world famous landmarks and icons such as the Statue of Liberty, the pyramids and the Twin Towers. Michael Langenstein has work in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and many others.

Additional Information

Artists' Postcards Series II

Photographs used from NASA and J.G. Ross. Postcard is a holographic depiction of the twin towers in front of the pyramids and on the moon.

UND Art Collections owns 4 copies of this postcard.


Postcard Reverse


Text in upper left hand corner of postcard:

Michael Langenstein

Two in Time (Printed in various different languages below)


Postage square on upper right hand corner of postcard:

15 cent Postage


Text in top center of postcard:

Artists' Postcards Logo


Text in bottom left of postcard:

© Artists' Postcards 1978, N.Y.C.

Photos: Moonscape, NASA: Pyramids, J.G. Ross

Exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, Fall 1978

Condition

Very good

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