American Artist Ray Johnson In Locust
by The Estate Of David Gahr
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American Artist Ray Johnson In Locust
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The Estate Of David Gahr
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Photograph - Photography
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LOCUST VALLEY, N.Y. - SEPTEMBER 1968: American artist Ray Johnson (Raymond Edward "Ray" Johnson - October 16, 1927 - January 13, 1995) poses for a portrait at his home and studio in September, 1968 in Locust Valley, New York. Ray Johnson was founder of the conceptual mail-art network, the New York Correspondence School, and a seminal figure in the downtown New York Pop-art and Neo-Dada movements of the 1960s and '70s. Ray Johnson was for several years in the late-1950s a member of the Black Mountain School in North Carolina, a legendary and influential 'college' of avant-gardism for painting, dance, and sculpture that included composer John Cage, dancer Merce Cunningham. artists Robert Motherwell and Robert Rauschenberg, and theorist and architecht Buckminster Fulller, amongst many others. Ray Johnson's career and biography was the subject of a major award-winning documentary, 'How to Draw a Bunny'(2002). (Photo by David Gahr/Getty Images)
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