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ID: 500006906 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500006906			Record Type: Person

Johnson, Ray (American painter, draftsman, and performance artist, 1927-1995)

Note: Studied at the Art Students League in New York 1944-1945, and at Black Mountain College, North Carolina from 1945-1948 under Josef Albers. At Black Mountain he met and associated with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Richard Lippold. His work involved collage, found objects, and elements of performance, including mail or correspondence art. He circulated art through the postal service under the names "New York Correspondance School" and "Buddha University." He committed suicide under mysterious circumstances that he may have considered a final work of art.

Names:
	Johnson, Ray (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
	Ray Johnson (V,display,LC)
	Johnson, Raymond (V)
	Johnson, Raymond Edward (U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	LGBTQ

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	draftsman
	performance artist
	collagist
	sculptor
	photographer

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Detroit (Wayne county, Michigan, United States) (inhabited place) Died: Sag Harbor (Suffolk county, New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

associate of ....	Podber, Dorothy
......................	(American performance artist and gallerist, ca. 1933-2008) [500128656]

collaborated with ....	Wilson, May
................................	(American sculptor, painter, and collagist, 1905-1986) [500076583]

colleague of ....	Warhol, Andy
......................	(American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, 1928-1987) [500006031]

friend of ....	Name, Billy
................	(American photographer, 1940-2016) [500125490]

student at (person to institution) ....	Black Mountain College
............................................................	(American liberal arts college, active 1933-1957) [500125890]

student of ....	Albers, Josef
..................	(German-American painter and theorist, 1888-1976) [500033049]

List/Hierarchical Position:

....

Persons, Artists

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Johnson, Ray (I)

Biographies:

(American painter, draftsman, and performance artist, 1927-1995) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American artist, b.1927) ..... [BHA]
(American artist, 1927-) ..... [WCP]
(American artist, b.1927) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, born 1927) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American painter, 1927-1995) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1927-1995) ..... [GRL]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, 1927-1995) ..... [MoMA]
(American sculptor, 1927-1995) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

Johnson, Ray ........	[BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................	Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
..........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules 2928
..........................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M8; 890164; 980063
..........................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..........................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..........................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82233432
..........................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 42428
..........................	Witt Library, Authority files

Johnson, Raymond ........	[GRL, VP]
..................................	Grove Art Online (2003-2008)
..................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82233432

Johnson, Raymond Edward ........	[GRL, Grove Art]
...............................................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
...............................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 82233432

Ray Johnson ........	[GRISC, MoMA, VP]
........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
........................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2004M13; 2004M13
........................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)


Note:
English	..........	[VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 24 May 2005

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