Gutai Postcards

The hand-painted and collaged postcards in this collection feature summer greetings, exhibition invitations, correspondence, and pieces created for the Gutai Card Box at the 11th Gutai Exhibition held in Osaka, Japan, in 1962. Many of them are interpretations of traditional Japanese New Year’s cards called nengajō. Others resemble large-scale works such as Shiraga Kazuo’s Golden Wings Brushing the Clouds Incarnated from Earthly Wide Star (Chikatsusei Maunkinshi). This set of cards was collected by the artist Yamazaki Tsuruko, a co-founder and one of the few female artists affiliated with the Gutai group.