Contemporary

Year: 1980.

Size: 30 x 45 inches

Year: 1971

Size: 25 x 38 inches

This poster by Tomi Ungerer (creator of Schoolhouse Rock) showcasing the famous fairy tale Cinderella. This is the moment where the Fairy Godmother is about to turn the mice in to footmen and the pumpkin into a coach.

Year: 1970

Size: 30 x 45 inches

Year: 1976

Size: 30 x 45 inches

Year: 1979.

Year: 1977

Size: 30 x 46 1/4

Year: 1968

Size: 46 x 32 inches

Printed in 1968, it advertises the exhibition of Cranach and Picasso at the Albrect Durer Society in Nurnberg.

Year: 1980.

Size: 30 x 46 inches

Masterpiece Theater began its tenth anniversary season (see small logo at right) with a serialized dramatization of Crime and Punishment. Chermayeff communicates the anguish of Dostoevsky's masterwork with the image of a blood-spattered prison cell wall glimpsed through a small barred window with the title scrawled in chalk above. Playing the tortured Raskolnikov was John Hurt, who had appeared as an unforgettably decadent Caligula in the I, Claudius series three years earlier.

Year: 1981.

Size: 30 x 46 inches

The centerpiece of Masterpiece Theater's tenth season was a 13-part drama titled UXB (unexploded bombs). Set in England during World War II, the gripping series gave us our first look at Anthony Andrews before he went on to make his career in another Masterpiece Theater presentation Brideshead Revisited. Chermayeff uses stencil-style lettering and spattered paint to create a graphic explosion.

Year: 1971

Size: 20 x 58 inches

Condition: A / P

Printed in 1971, with a heavy nod to Mucha’s Dame Aux Camilias, this poster announces Byrd’s highly successful exhibition at Roger Puckett’s Triton Gallery in NYC.

Year: 1977

Size: 27 x 38 1/2 inches

Condition: A / P

Even in this flattened front-facing perspective, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld's iconic chair is immediately recognizable. Originally designed with standard wood elements painted black, white, and gray, he was eventually swayed by the De Stijl movement's penchant for saturated colors (especially as seen in the paintings of Piet Mondrian); in 1923, Rietveld applied the colors we see depicted here. His conceptual design was one of the first three-dimensional works in this movement. Israeli curator Izika Gaon designed this aptly geometric promotion for an exhibition of De Stijl works at the Israel Museum in 1977. The poster also resides in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.

Year: 1979

Size: 35 1/2 x 50 3/8 inches

Condition: A / P

For the Swiss minimalist, this expressive promotion is quite the stylistic departure—but the typography is undeniably Müller-Brockmann. Man of La Mancha debuted on Broadway in 1965; the "Don Quixote" spin-off was a huge success, and won five Tony Awards and inspired productions around the world. This poster was designed for a performance of the play at the Theater am Stadtgarten in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Year: 1988.

Size: 30 x 46 inches

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) was an English statesman and novelist whose writing and speeches were marked equally by sharp wit, individual style and conservative convictions. As played by Ian McShane in the Masterpiece Theater series and captured here in an inimitable Davis portrait, you can almost hear him sounding forth on his trust of democratic Toryism, his belief in social reform and his pride in empire and crown.

Year: 1976

Size: 30 x 46 inches

Created in 1976, it advertises the mini series Edward and Mrs Simpson.

Year: 1978

Size: 23 1/2 x 35 inches

Printed in 1978, it advertises the ballet "Variations on America." Shown are the famous dancers Baryshnikov and Christine Sarry.

Year: 1967

Size: 29.5 x 45 inches

For Evergreen's May 1967 issue, the counter culture journal came up with a poster within a poster, using Ivanov's festive 1920 May-Day image of a white-clad maiden scattering roses over the heads of the proletariat. The Cyrillic text above the design is explained below: "In Russia it means, Join The Underground!"

Year: 1967.

Size: 30 x 45 inches

Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset began Evergreen Review in 1957 as a literary quarterly featuring the likes of Sartre, Camus and Beckett as well as American poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Kerouac. By 1966, the publication had increased its frequency and become a voice of political iconoclasm, so graphic designer John Alcorn refreshed its look, dropping "review" from the title in the process. Heralding the redesign was a new advertising campaign : "Join The Underground." Here, a poster for the February 1967 number utilizes cover artwork by noted illustrator and satirist Tomi Ungerer: a coolie-hatted image of Uncle Sam, sunk in the quagmire of Vietnam and displeased with the face he presents to the mirror.