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Letters
Browse written documents inside artworks, from letters and envelopes to inscriptions and correspondence, using museum tags plus visible-text and object detection. This motif page currently surfaces 116 works by 79 artists across 25 institutions. It blends museum tags, public collections, and vision-detected letters, envelopes, inscriptions, and visible writing.
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Artists with this motif
Carrión
7 works surfaced for this motif.
Alighiero Boetti
5 works surfaced for this motif.
Kazimir Malevich
4 works surfaced for this motif.
Marcel Duchamp
4 works surfaced for this motif.
Piet Mondrian
4 works surfaced for this motif.
Theo van Doesburg
4 works surfaced for this motif.
Unknown artist
4 works surfaced for this motif.
Giuseppe Penone
3 works surfaced for this motif.
Museums with this motif
Museum of Modern Art
35 works surfaced for this motif.
Princeton Digital PUL
17 works surfaced for this motif.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
8 works surfaced for this motif.
Rijksmuseum
6 works surfaced for this motif.
Walters Art Museum
6 works surfaced for this motif.
Seattle Art Museum
5 works surfaced for this motif.
Fogg Museum
4 works surfaced for this motif.
Library of Congress
4 works surfaced for this motif.
Works with this motif

Saint Ildefonso
El Greco · c. 1603/1614
National Gallery of Art · oil on canvas

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Oil on canvas

Fishing Boats at Étretat
Claude Monet · 1885
Seattle Art Museum · Oil on canvas

Portrait of Lucia Wijbrants
Gabriël Metsu · 1667
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Oil on panel

C. - C. = Fisch
Paul Klee · 1931
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Watercolor and ink on gessoed paper, mounted…

Plate (supplementary suite) from Manifeste Mystique (Mystic Manifesto)
Salvador Dalí · 1951
Museum of Modern Art · Etching from the supplementary suite of an…

Shabnam Adiban
Adiban, Shabnam · 06/09/23 02:29:37 PM UTC
Princeton Digital PUL · Ephemera
![Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) by Marcel Duchamp](/api/artwork-image/moma-174656/marcel-duchamp-untitled-from-the-bride-stripped-bare-by-her-bachelors-even-the-green-box-la-mariee-mise-a-nu-par-ses-cel.webp?q=72&w=2048)
Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte])
Marcel Duchamp · 1934
Museum of Modern Art · Collotype reproduction from a box with ninety-four…

Beauty Painting
Suzuki Harunobu · Edo period, 18th century
Tokyo National Museum · Painting

1970 from Insicuro Noncurante
Alighiero Boetti · 1966-75
Museum of Modern Art · One from a portfolio of eighty two…

Poster for Vautier Day / Knížák Night, Fluxus West, various cities, California, May 15–16, 1968
Ken Friedman · 1968
Museum of Modern Art · Offset lithograph

Front cover from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)
Kazimir Malevich · 1913–14, published 1914
Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph with lithographed manuscript text from an…

Postal Dossier (Dossier postale)
Alighiero Boetti · 1969-70
Museum of Modern Art · Paperboard folder containing photocopies

At the Theatre
Prudence Heward · 1928
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts · Purchase, Horsley and Annie Townsend Bequest,…

Movimento Futurista letterhead (Letter from Marinetti)
Giacomo Balla · c.1939
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

The Pomegranate
Pablo Ruiz Picasso · 1911-1912
Fogg Museum · Oil on canvas

A man and woman representing a warning about sexually transmitted diseases among Alaska Natives and native Americans; advertisement for local health clinics and the National Native American AIDS Hotline by the Alaska Native Health Board. Colour lithograph by Cliff Hiatt, 1990.
the Alaska Native Health Board · 1990
Wellcome Collection · 1 print : lithograph, printed in black and white…

Fez and the Kingdom of Morocco.
Hondius · 1606-01-01
Library of Congress · map

Coup de mistral
Artist Unknown, late 19th or early 20th century · 19th-20th…
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Etching

Tenjin Visiting China
Fang Meiya, inscription by Ryōan Keigo · Ming dynasty (China)…
Kyushu National Museum · Color on silk

Copy of Recommendation by Committee on Indian Affairs
Committee on · May 29, 1838
Gilcrease Museum · ink on paper

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · c. 1570–75
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Oil on canvas

China Rose and a Quail
Inscription by Keijo Shūrin · Muromachi period, 16th century
Tokyo National Museum · Color on silk

Pro dva kvadrata. Suprematicheskii skaz v 6-ti postroikakh (About Two Squares: A Suprematist Tale of Two Squares in Six Constructions)
El Lissitzky · 1922
Museum of Modern Art · Illustrated book with seven letterpress illustrations (including…

The Poet
John Augustus Atkinson, 1775–1831 · undated
Yale Center for British Art · Watercolor; verso: graphite on medium, slightly…

Hagemeijer & Co. stationery calling card
Theo van Doesburg · 1919
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

A Lady Writing
Vermeer, Johannes · c. 1665
National Gallery of Art · oil on canvas

Postal Dossier (Dossier postale)
Alighiero Boetti · 1969-70
Museum of Modern Art · Paperboard folder containing photocopies

Vue du lac de Challes et du Mont Blanc (View of the Lake of Challes and Mont Blanc)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun · 1807–1808
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Pastel on blue-green paper, two sheets joined

Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest, South Side of Inscription Rock, N.M.
Timothy O'Sullivan · 1873
Art Institute of Chicago · Albumen print, from the album "Geographical &…

Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest, South Side of Inscription Rock, N.M., No. 3
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1873
Cleveland Museum of Art · albumen print from wet collodion negative
![[Alphabet in the form of a Good Humor bar] by Oldenburg by Oldenburg](/api/artwork-image/loc-item-2014646606/oldenburg-alphabet-in-the-form-of-a-good-humor-bar-by-oldenburg-library-of-congress.webp?q=72&w=2048)
[Alphabet in the form of a Good Humor bar] by Oldenburg
Oldenburg · 1970-01-01
Library of Congress · photo, print, drawing

Fêtes (Celebrations)
Alexander Calder · 1971
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Color aquatints, letterpress, bound volume

T'oros Roslin Gospels
T'oros Roslin · 1262 (Medieval)
Walters Art Museum · ink and pigments on well finished, medium weight…

James Nasmyth (1808-1890)
David Octavius Hill · 1843–1847
Cleveland Museum of Art · salted paper print from calotype negative

Single Leaf from a Gradual with the Assumption of the Virgin
German · mid 13th century
Walters Art Museum · ink and pigments on parchment

Untitled by David Smith
David Smith · about 1932–1935
J. Paul Getty Museum · Gelatin silver print with gouache applied, Gelatin…

Andrew Jackson to David Smith, April 2, 1814
Smith, David (Correspondent) · 1814-04-02
Library of Congress · manuscript/mixed material

David Smith, March 2, 1814
Smith, David (Author) · 1814-03-02
Library of Congress · manuscript/mixed material

Untitled from Passi Sulle Cime Dei Gelsi (Footsteps on Mulberry Tree Tops)
Giuseppe Penone · 2000
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress print from a portfolio of ten…

Genealogies of the Kings of England
Unknown artist · 1377
Princeton Digital PUL · 1 roll : parchment ; 1400 x 138…

The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light
Claude Monet · 1894
J. Paul Getty Museum · Oil on canvas, Oil, Canvas

Ein liebliche hystory von dem hochgelernten meister lucidario.
Honorius Augustodunensis 1075 - 1155 · 1485
Princeton Digital PUL · [48] p. illus. (5 woodcuts, initials) 27 cm.

Perfect Door/Perfect Odor/Perfect Rodo
Bruce Nauman · 1972
Dallas Museum of Art · White glass tubing, clear glass tubing, and…
![Book of hours : use of Paris, [ca. 1415]. by Catholic Church](/api/artwork-image/dpul-dcxk81k059k/catholic-church-book-of-hours-use-of-paris-ca-1415-princeton-digital-pul.webp?q=72&w=2048)
Book of hours : use of Paris, [ca. 1415].
Catholic Church · 1415
Princeton Digital PUL · 1 v. (105 leaves) : parchment, ill.

Le testament / Jean de Meun.
Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305 · 1425
Princeton Digital PUL · 1 volume (29 leaves) : parchment ; 22…

Untitled from Passi Sulle Cime Dei Gelsi (Footsteps on Mulberry Tree Tops)
Giuseppe Penone · 2000
Museum of Modern Art · One from a portfolio of ten etching,…

Au Paradis des fantômes (The Paradise of Phantoms)
Joan Miró · 1938
Museum of Modern Art · Illustrated book with one drypoint with aquatint
![Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) by Marcel Duchamp](/api/artwork-image/moma-174647/marcel-duchamp-untitled-from-the-bride-stripped-bare-by-her-bachelors-even-the-green-box-la-mariee-mise-a-nu-par-ses-cel.webp?q=72&w=2048)
Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte])
Marcel Duchamp · 1934
Museum of Modern Art · Collotype reproduction from a box with ninety-four…

Plate (supplementary suite) from Manifeste Mystique (Mystic Manifesto)
Salvador Dalí · 1951
Museum of Modern Art · Etching from the supplementary suite of an…

Plate (supplementary suite) from Manifeste Mystique (Mystic Manifesto)
Salvador Dalí · 1951
Museum of Modern Art · Etching from the supplementary suite of an…

Merry Christmas 1939 Happy New Year 1940
John Marin · Værkdatering: (1939-1940)
Statens Museum for Kunst · Radering, pensel og vandfarve

Saint Augustine in Ecstasy
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1665-75
Seattle Art Museum · Oil on canvas

Psalter with Cistercian Ordinary for Ferial Office
Flemish · ca. 1250-1275
Walters Art Museum · ink and pigments on parchment bound between boards…

Touke Psalter
Flemish (?) · ca. 1250-1260 (Gothic)
Walters Art Museum · ink and pigments on heavy weight parchment bound…

Psalter
Flemish · 3rd quarter 13th century
Walters Art Museum · ink and pigments on parchment bound between boards…

Saint Luke
Flemish , Brussels (?) · late 15th century
Seattle Art Museum · Wood with polychromy and wax brocade

Folio 19 from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)
Kazimir Malevich · 1913–14, published 1914
Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph with lithographed manuscript text from an…

De Consolatione Philosophie / Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius.
Boethius, -524 · 1100
Princeton Digital PUL · 48 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 165-185 x…

Berberi playing on the kisirka to women of the same tribe. In Oriental album : characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile / with descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John ; illustrated from designs taken on the spot by E. Prisse.
James Augustus St
Wellcome Collection · Digital Images

Habesh or Abyssinian Slave. In Oriental album : characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile / with descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John ; illustrated from designs taken on the spot by E. Prisse.
James Augustus St
Wellcome Collection · Digital Images

Nubian Females: Kanoosee Tribe. Philae. In Oriental album : characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile / with descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John ; illustrated from designs taken on the spot by E. Prisse.
James Augustus St
Wellcome Collection · Digital Images
![Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) by Marcel Duchamp](/api/artwork-image/moma-174637/marcel-duchamp-untitled-from-the-bride-stripped-bare-by-her-bachelors-even-the-green-box-la-mariee-mise-a-nu-par-ses-cel.webp?q=72&w=2048)
Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte])
Marcel Duchamp · 1934
Museum of Modern Art · Collotype reproduction from a box with ninety-four…

Back cover from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)
Kazimir Malevich · 1913–14, published 1914
Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph with lithographed manuscript text from an…

Postal Dossier (Dossier postale)
Alighiero Boetti · 1969-70
Museum of Modern Art · Paperboard folder containing photocopies

Incipit prolog in elucidario... [manuscript with dual illumination of magister cum discipulis and of scribe at desk.
Honorius Augustodunensis · 1101
Princeton Digital PUL · [38] manuscript leaves on vellum, with a dual…

Three Treatises by Honorius Augustodunensis
Honorius of Autun · 2nd half 12th century (Medieval)
Walters Art Museum · ink and pigments on parchment bound between beech…

Seal, Carving
Unknown artist · circa 1970
Penn Museum · Slate

"Der Schädel des Negerhäuptlings Makaua" by Rudolf Frank and Georg Lichey
László Moholy-Nagy · 1920-30
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

"Keramikgården", ritningar
Thafvelin, Harald
ArkDes · Thing

Postal Dossier (Dossier postale)
Alighiero Boetti · 1969-70
Museum of Modern Art · Paperboard folder containing photocopies

Duan inkstone (with a jade-inlaid wood box)
Unknown artist · 清 西元1644-1911年
National Palace Museum · 文具
![Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) by Marcel Duchamp](/api/artwork-image/moma-174636/marcel-duchamp-untitled-from-the-bride-stripped-bare-by-her-bachelors-even-the-green-box-la-mariee-mise-a-nu-par-ses-cel.webp?q=72&w=2048)
Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte])
Marcel Duchamp · 1934
Museum of Modern Art · Collotype reproduction from a box with ninety-four…

Plate (folio 21) from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)
Kazimir Malevich · 1913–14, published 1914
Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph from an illustrated book with 28…

Various Paintings
Gao Fenghan · Qing dynasty, dated 1714
Tokyo National Museum · Ink on paper (Nos. 1-9, 11-18), ink and…
![Alessandro di Gino Vecchietti, 1472-1532 [obverse] by Anonymous Artist](/api/artwork-image/nga-44853/anonymous-artist-alessandro-di-gino-vecchietti-1472-1532-obverse-national-gallery-of-art.webp?q=72&w=2048)
Alessandro di Gino Vecchietti, 1472-1532 [obverse]
Anonymous Artist · c. 1498
National Gallery of Art · bronze

A Scholar in His Study ("Faust")
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn · c. 1653
Fogg Museum · Etching and drypoint on white antique laid paper

Saint Jerome beside a Pollard Willow
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn · 1648
Fogg Museum · Etching and drypoint on white antique laid paper

Gem
Nicholas · 1700-1850 CE
Penn Museum · Sard | Gold; Intaglio

Maternal Caress
Mary Cassatt · 1890–91
Art Institute of Chicago · Color aquatint and drypoint, with softground, on…

The Letter
Mary Cassatt · 1890–91
Art Institute of Chicago · Color aquatint and drypoint on off-white laid…

Untitled from Passi Sulle Cime Dei Gelsi (Footsteps on Mulberry Tree Tops)
Giuseppe Penone · 2000
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress print from a portfolio of ten…

Poster for Fluxus Festival/Theatre Compositions/Street Compositions/Exhibits/Electronic Music, Hypokriterion Theater, Amsterdam, June 23, 1963 and Fluxus Festival, Den Haag, June 28, 1963
Willem de Ridder · 1963
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Antefix with Medusa
Greek, southern Italy · 6th century B.C.
Seattle Art Museum · Terracotta

French manuscript: Leaf from a Book of Hours
French · 1450
Seattle Art Museum · Ink, pigment, and burnished gold on vellum

De Stijl NB stationery note paper
Theo van Doesburg · c.1926
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Striding figure
Egypt · 300–30 BCE
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Granodiorite

False door
Egypt · about 2400 BCE
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Limestone

(A, b, c) / Ulises Carrión.
Carrión · 2016
Princeton Digital PUL · 1 volume (unpaged) ; 15 cm

(The drum) / Ulises Carrión.
Carrión · 2016
Princeton Digital PUL · 1 volume (unpaged) ; 15 cm
![Aan onze vrienden = Dear friends [A4 letter] / Ulises Carrión, Aart van Barneveld. by Carrión](/api/artwork-image/dpul-dcm039kh823/carrion-aan-onze-vrienden-dear-friends-a4-letter-ulises-carrion-aart-van-barneveld-princeton-digital-pul.webp?q=72&w=2048)
Aan onze vrienden = Dear friends [A4 letter] / Ulises Carrión, Aart van Barneveld.
Carrión · 1977
Princeton Digital PUL · 1 sheet ; 30 cm

Ulises Carrión's Other Books and So collection of ephemera from 1975 to 1984, consisting of 45 invitations, flyers, and posters publicizing events at his Amsterdam bookstore
Carrión · 1975
Princeton Digital PUL · 2 binders of flyers and postcards : illustrations…

10 stamped texts / by Ulises Carrion.
Carrión · 1973
Princeton Digital PUL · 1 portfolio (10 sheets) ; 14 x 19…
![A letterpress-printed collection of 13 language works] / [Ulises Carrión by Carrión](/api/artwork-image/dpul-dcd217r2433/carrion-a-letterpress-printed-collection-of-13-language-works-ulises-carrion-princeton-digital-pul.webp?q=72&w=2048)
A letterpress-printed collection of 13 language works] / [Ulises Carrión
Carrión · 1973
Princeton Digital PUL · 15 unnumbered leaves ; 25 x 35 cm
![Ulises Carrión : texts and other texts (28 May-9 June [1973]) [exhibition invitation]. by Carrión](/api/artwork-image/dpul-dcqr46rc73f/carrion-ulises-carrion-texts-and-other-texts-28-may-9-june-1973-exhibition-invitation-princeton-digital-pul.webp?q=72&w=2048)
Ulises Carrión : texts and other texts (28 May-9 June [1973]) [exhibition invitation].
Carrión · 1973
Princeton Digital PUL · 4 sheets ; 10 x 14 cm

The twins' A B C / by Olga Morgan ; engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
Morgan, Olga · 1904
Princeton Digital PUL · [58] p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.

Postcard (Addressed to A.F. Del Marle)
Piet Mondrian · 1927
Museum of Modern Art · Ink on paper

Handling, 1913
Asplund, Gunnar · 1913
ArkDes · Thing

De Stijl NB letterhead (Letter to Jean Badovici from van Doesburg)
Theo van Doesburg · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Postcard (Addressed to A.F. Del Marle)
Piet Mondrian · 1926
Museum of Modern Art · Ink on paper

Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
Johannes Vermeer · c. 1663
Rijksmuseum · oil on canvas

Postcard (Addressed to A.F. Del Marle)
Piet Mondrian · 1926
Museum of Modern Art · Ink on paper

Postcard (Addressed to A.F. Del Marle)
Piet Mondrian · 1927
Museum of Modern Art · Ink on paper

Brief aan anoniem
Theo van Doesburg · 1917-11-10
Rijksmuseum · ink, paper

Pieter Brattinga letterhead (Handwritten letter to Piet Zwart)
Pieter Brattinga · n.d.
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Il Futurismo letterhead (Letter to Malespine from Marinetti)
Giacomo Balla · c.1915
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Brief aan Philip Zilcken
Walter Crane · 1891-08-26
Rijksmuseum · paper, ink

Brief aan Philip Zilcken
Paul Signac · 1907-04-16
Rijksmuseum · ink, paper

Brief aan Philip Zilcken
A. Cattier · 1878-06-05
Rijksmuseum · paper, ink

Official Announcement to a Tragedy
Keizo Matsui · c. 1980
Museum of Modern Art · Offset lithograph

The Letter Box
Alfred Stieglitz · 1897
Fogg Museum · Photographs

Poem with drawing
American · late 19th century - early 20th century
Gilcrease Museum · paper

Vorschrift, zum nutzen der Bernerischen jugend / verfertiget durch Johan Jakob Roschi, schreibmeister an der kunstschule in Bern ; gegraben durch Heinrich Brupbacher in Wädischwyl.
Roschi, Johan Jakob · 1789
Princeton Digital PUL · 4 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates, 42…

Letter about tourism boycott poster
Unknown artist · 06/08/21 07:11:47 PM UTC
Princeton Digital PUL · Ephemera

Brief aan onbekend
Alexandre Calame · 1847-03-26
Rijksmuseum · paper, ink

Letter from Arthur Sullivan to Richard D'Oyly Carte
Sullivan, Arthur (Sir) · 5 June 1877
Victoria and Albert Museum · ink, paper, handwriting