1987
graphite
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1987 graphite by Ray Johnson, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This sketch shows a stick-figure person with a head made of black dots connected in a web. The figure wears a simple shirt and stands against a faint, grid-like background. In the top right corner, someone wrote "MAIL ART THOUGHT" with an arrow pointing to the head. The drawing feels quick and rough, like a doodle. The date "9.19.87" is scrawled in the corner, and the paper has faint marks beneath it. Check out Ray Johnson to see more of his playful, mail-art style.
Raymond Edward "Ray" Johnson 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 "New York's most…
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