MFA Boston to Display Leonard Lauder Vintage Postcard Collection

  • May 30, 2012
MFA Boston to Display Leonard Lauder Vintage Postcard Collection
The exhibition will feature 450 postcards from Europe and the United States, drawn from the Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive, one of the world's finest and most comprehensive collections of postcards, and a promised gift to the MFA.

In the decades around 1900, a postcard craze swept the world, and billions of cards were bought, mailed, and pasted into albums.

They were the period's Twitter, email, Flickr, and Facebook, all wrapped into one.

Acclaimed artists turned to the new medium, but one of the great pleasures of postcards is how some of the most beautiful and interesting cards were made by artists whose names we barely know.

The MFA will showcase these works, tracing how historical and cultural themes of the modern age–enthralling, exciting, and sometimes disturbing–played out on the postcard's tiny canvas.

"The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection" will be on view October 24, 2012–April 14, 2013.

More informtion: https://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/postcard-age