Last night I was flipping through They Knew What They Wanted, a book that collects poet John Ashbery’s collages, I zoomed in on this 2008 collage, Chutes and Ladders I (for Joe Brainard):
It’s the Pansy Sailor from Vick’s Floral Guide!
So not only did Ashbery write about the “seed-packet look” of Brainard’s paintings and collages, he actually took an image from an old seed catalog to make this tribute. (Who knows, it might’ve been one of the clippings Brainard used to send Ashbery for his collages.)