Postcard announcement for the exhibition Apr. 1–20, 1972 at Fischbach Gallery, NY, featuring one of the artist's celebrated Nancy works. Crossed out Mercer Street address to verso, fine. 3.5 x 6.5 inches; 9 x 14.2 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.