Arthur Secunda (November 12, 1927,

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. His works hang in the permanent collections of institutions worldwide including the

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, the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, the

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, the

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, and the Detroit Art Institute. Secunda was one of the

mail art Mail art, also known as postal art and correspondence art, is an artistic movement centered on sending small-scale works through the postal service. It initially developed out of what eventually became Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence Schoo ...

ist

Ray Johnson Raymond Edward "Ray" Johnson (October 16, 1927 – January 13, 1995) was an American artist. Known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, he was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art and was described as

's first correspondents and the man to whom Johnson traced the beginnings of his work in Correspondance Art. Johnson sent his school friend drawings of female movie stars after Secunda's family moved away from Detroit in 1943. Secunda died on August 30, 2022, aged 94.

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Arthur Secunda: Brief Biography http://pierianpress.com/index.php?section=art&content=secunda 1927 births 2022 deaths American male painters 20th-century American printmakers Sculptors from New Jersey 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists Painters from New Jersey People from Jersey City, New Jersey {{US-artist-stub