E.F. Higgins III. Original stamp work and exhibition announcements
(1) Unique stamp sheet with perforation lines, colour silkscreen on wove paper, 28.5 x 21.5 cm. Features 24 art postage stamps. Signed in pencil in lower right corner, dated 9.3.81. In excellent condition. (2) Colour Xerox flyer 'Doo-Da meets Dada', announcing a duo exhibition of E.F. Higgins III and Buster Cleveland, held from 4 November to 4 December 1978 at Jamie Gallery in New York. Folded once, with mild rubbing on fold and edges.
(2) Colour Xerox flyer 'Doo-Da meets Dada', announcing a duo exhibition of E.F. Higgins III and Buster Cleveland, held from 4 November to 4 December 1978 at Jamie Gallery in New York. Folded once, with mild rubbing on fold and edges. (3) Exhibition postcard 'Doo Da Art Auction, 200 Oil Paintings of stamps by E.F. Higgins III', held from 3 November to 1 December 1979 at 112 Greene Street, New York. (4) Stapled A4 checklist for a 'Doo Da Art Auction dated 1981, 4 pp. With original stamps and a signed postcard attached to the cover page. Lists 175 original paintings, which were used to produce art postage stamps. (total 4)
American artist E.F. Higgins III (1949-2021) was active in the international mail art scene since the mid 1970s, distributing his Doo-Da postage works. In the 1980s he founded the 'street artist gang' of the Rivington School in New York's Lower East side.