Last year, Sir John Everett Millais's swoon of pre-Raphaelite sentimentality, Ophelia singing and sinking into her river of flowers, was toppled as the Tate's top-selling postcard by a pale woman in a dressing gown clutching a white dog.
Here's a selection of Abe's Penny postcards, followed by a Q. & A. with the Knoebels.
From the oldest exhibit, which was published in Latin in 1471 by the French printer Nicolas Jenson, to the newest, "James Jennifer Georgina, Irma Boomm's poignant compilation of the postcards sent by a mother to her daughter every day for a decade, "The Printed Book" presents a resounding defense of its subject.
Survey mailings followed standard Dillman procedures, beginning with an introductory postcard, followed by a cover letter and survey (survey packet), then a reminder postcard, and up to two survey packets and reminder postcard re-mailings [ 25].
With its sometimes cloyingly rustic charms — cobbled streets, orange-tile roofs, streams of bell-ringing bicyclists — Copenhagen can seem like a postcard sketched by a Nordic Norman Rockwell.
By H. Steinberg and John McCarten The New Yorker, September 1, 1962 P. 25 Postcard received by a father from his fifteen-year-old son, who is travelling with a small group through Europe and the Near East: Dear Daddy: This is an urgent letter.
Publically burned to death in Waco, Texas on May 16, 1916 and then hung up for display in the nearby town of Robinson, Jesse Washington's charred corpse appears on a postcard written by a man who thus describes his own part in the proceedings: "This is the barbecue we had last night my picture is to the left with a cross over it your son, Joe".
Last, we feel that the two-step approach, using a postcard followed by a survey, is prudent in two ways.
Hundreds of art lovers queued up outside the Royal College of Arts for a chance of buying an art bargain among the 2,900 postcards by 1,124 artists exhibited anonymously.
HAD A GOOD TIME: Stories From American Postcards, by Robert Olen Butler.
