Artists’ Homemade Christmas Cards
Abril Lamarque, a Cuban-American artist, created this set of six nesting envelopes and small holiday card in 1930. (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
Pablo Cano, a Miami-based artist who creates marionettes, sent this holiday card to Miami art critic Helen L. Kohen in 1989. (Archives of American Art)
Lamarque, an amateur magician and member of the Society of American Magicians, created this card with six removable playing cards. No date. (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
Dan Flavin, famous for creating sculptures with fluorescent lights, sent this Christmas card to artist Andrew Bucci in 1962. (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
Julia Kepes, wife of Hungarian-born artist Gyorgy Kepes, painted this Christmas card using gouache paint, which is similar to watercolor but thicker. The Kepes family sent the card to Katharine Kuh. No date.. (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
Abstract painter Regina Bogat weaved this holiday card that she and her husband, painter Alfred Jansen, sent to art historian Katharine Kuh in 1975. (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
Stuart Davis, an American modernist painter, sent this holiday card to artist Ernest Schnakenberg. No date. (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
`Alexander Calder borrowed imagery from his Cirque Calder, a wire-sculpture circus, to create this playful card in 1930. (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
Frederick Hammersley used his keen sense of color and precisionist style to create this screen-printed Christmas card design. No date. (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
Sage sent this creative card to Bunce in 1962 just a few months before she committed suicide in January 1963.) (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
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