Oblong announcement card for an exhibition Apr. 6–25, [1974] at Fischbach Gallery, featuring an event-specific work playing on the artist's celebrated Nancy works.  Light toning to verso, else fine. 7 1/8 x 4 3/8 in; 18.1 x 11.1 cm. 

From the collection of Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. Perhaps Bidart's most celebrated poem, "The Second Hour of the Night," is partly based on his relationship with Brainard. "The relationship was," as Bidart has said, both "more than friendship and less than a romance." His "In Memory of Joe Brainard" is a profound elegy for his friend who died of AIDS-induced pneumonia in 1994.