Bob Boxes

1988

Ray Johnson
American, 1927–1995

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Artist: Ray Johnson
Title: Bob Boxes
Medium: 13 cardboard boxes containing mail art, objects, and ephemera
Dimensions: Dimensions variable
Credit Line: Laura T. Magnuson and Simeon B. Williams endowment funds
Reference Number: 2020.68.1-13

Robert Warner and Tod Lippy, “Yesterday’s Mail,” Esopus, no. 16 (Spring 2011): 32-47 (color ill.)

New York, Esopus Space, Ray and Bob Box, June 2–30, 2011, no cat no.
Glenside, PA, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Tables of Contents: Ray Johnson Bob Box Archive, Sept. 6–Oct. 16, 2011, no cat.; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, as Tables of Content: Ray Johnson & Robert Warner Bob Box Archive, MATRIX 241, Jan. 27–May 20, 2012.
Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, Return to Sender: Ray Johnson, Robert Warner, and the New York Correspondence School, Aug. 30, 2013–Jan. 5, 2014, no cat.
Detroit, College of Creative Studies, Valade Family Gallery, Ray Johnson: The Bob Boxes, Sept. 10–Oct. 8, 2016, no cat.
New York, School of the Visual Arts Flatiron Project Space, Bob Box SVA, Nov. 7–29, 2019, no cat.

The artist; given to Robert Warner, New York, 1988; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 14, 2020.

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