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This is a list of other archival collections related to Ray Johnson. Building this list is an ongoing process, so please contact us with any additions.

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The Ray Johnson papers
Oral history interview with Ray Johnson
Ray Johnson is referenced in oral history interviews with these individuals:
Charles Alan
Ruth Asawa and Albert Lanier
Bruce Conner
Richard L. Feigen
Alison Knowles
Richard Lippold
V.V. Rankine
Lenore Tawney
Marcia Tucker
Ray Johnson materials can be found in the papers of these individuals:
Richard Artschwager
Dore Ashton
David Bourdon
Geoffrey Clements
Joseph Cornell
Arthur Coleman Danto
Burt Chernow
Norman B. Colp
Helen DeMott
Martin Diamond
Marcel Duchamp (scrapbooks)
Betty Esman
John Evans
Marion Greenstone
Vincent Grimaldi
John Gruen and Jane Wilson
John Held (mail art materials)
Ellen Hulda Johnson
Lilian and Frederick Kiesler
Joan Kron
Katharine Kuh
Ellen Lanyon
Lucy R. Lippard
Dorothy C. Miller
Jack Mitchell (photographs of artists)
Lowell Nesbitt
Louise Nevelson
Ad Reinhardt
Colette Roberts
Barbara Roux
Lenore Seroka (photographs)
Leon Polk Smith
Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt
Ultra Violet
Samuel Wagstaff
Ted and Joan Wilentz (Fluxus materials)
and the records of these institutions:
Betty Parsons Gallery
Eva Lee Gallery
Finch College Museum of Art, Contemporary Wing
Gertrude Kasle Gallery

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Library & Archives, New York
Ray Johson Artist Files
Franklin Furnace Archive
Steven Lieber Collection
Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection
Dorothy Miller Papers
John Held, Jr. Collection of Mail Art Periodicals
Flyers and booklets by Ray Johnson
Miscellaenous documents from John Margolies
David Bourdon Correspondence
Ray Johnson's Artist Books:
BOO K OF THE MO NTH
P EEK A BOO K OFTHE WEE K
A Book About Death
Book About Modern Art
A Book About Modern Art Nothing
A Book About Cranky Ant
Moderately Successful Pop Art
A Book About Unknown Art
This Typewriter Needs a New Ribbon

Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson Library

Ramsey Library at the University of North Carolina, Asheville

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Collection

Fondazione Bonotto
Molvena, Italy
Fluxus Collection: Ray Johnson Artist Page

Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California San Diego
Joe Brainard Letters
Ken Friedman Collection
Jackson Mac Low papers

University of California Santa Cruz Special Collections and Archives
Ray Johnson Mail Art collected by Rita Bottoms
Balloon Newspaper Epoch Part 1

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Balch Art Research Library
Eleanor Antin 100 Boots feedback, 1970-1974

Getty Research Institute Special Collections
Ray Johnson materials can be found in the papers of these individuals:
Lawrence Alloway
Jean Brown
Charles Henri Ford
George Herms
Dick Higgins
Allan Kaprow
Yvonne Rainer
Marcia Tucker

Stanford University Manuscripts Division
Ruth Asawa Papers

University of California Santa Barbara
Pat Fish mail art collection

University of Southern California Libraries
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
Los Angeles, CA
Orlando Gallery records

University of California Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Jess Papers
Bruce Conner Papers

New York Public Library
Schomberg Center
Naomi Sims papers

Houghton Library, Harvard
Cambridge, MA
New Directions Publishing Corp. records

University of British Columbia, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Vancouver, Canada
Morris/Trasov Archive
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery fonds
Peter Schuyff fonds

National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Art Metropole Collection
Ray Johnson mail art in the Art Metropole Collection

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Germany
Sohm Archive

Lomholt Mail Art Archive

Long Island University, Post Campus
Brookville, NY
Joan Harrison Archive

Northwestern University Library Special Collections
Evanston, IL
Dick Higgins Archive

University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections & University Archives
Iowa City, IA
Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts (ATCA) Collections
Includes:
The ATCA Rubber Stamp Art Collection
The Crane/Friedman Correspondence Art Collection
The Buster Cleveland Papers
The Albert M. Fine Collection
The Ken Friedman Archive and Collection
The Dick Higgins Collection
The E.F. Higgins III Collection
The Lil Picard Papers
The William Gaglione Papers

Asheville Art Museum
Black Mountain College Collection

University at Buffalo Libraries
Mail Art Collection

Kunsten Museum of Modern Art
Aalborg, Denmark
Mogens Otto Nielsen Mail Art Archive