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Greeting Card, Valentine
This is a Greeting card. It was designed by Marian Bantjes. It is dated 2010 and we acquired it in 2013. Its medium is lasercut card stock. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Marian Bantjes began sending valentines to friends and colleagues in 2005. Each year she creates a different design. For 2010, she decided to make valentines from old Christmas cards she had collected from friends. Bantjes designed a pattern and, working with the firm Arkwell Industries, put the cards through a laser printer to transform the rather prosaic cards into valentine “snowflakes.” Bantjes produced 500 unique iterations of the valentines; this is one of six of under consideration for acquisition.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled The Valentine as Art.
This object was
donated by
Marian Bantjes.
It is credited Gift of Marian Bantjes.
- Poster, Design Ignites Change
- laser cut wove paper.
- Gift of Marian Bantjes.
- 2013-23-1
- Print, Der Küss (The Kiss), from Pan, vol. 4, no. 2, 1898
- woodcut on thin cream japan paper.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2005-13-1
- Jarvik-7 Total Artificial Heart (USA)
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- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, 1987.0474.01.
- 14.2012.39
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- SIL39088014946875
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- silver-plated metal, mirror.
- Gift of Halston Enterprises, Inc..
- 1978-123-2
Its dimensions are
9.5 x 10 cm (3 3/4 x 3 15/16 in.)
Cite this object as
Greeting Card, Valentine; Designed by Marian Bantjes (Canadian, b. 1963); Canada; lasercut card stock; 9.5 x 10 cm (3 3/4 x 3 15/16 in.); Gift of Marian Bantjes; 2013-23-6
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Making Design.
