Contemporary

Year: ca. 1980s

Size: 30 x 46 inches.

This is an ORIGINAL FIRST PRINTING of this poster by the famous artist Edward Gorey.

Printed in the 1980s, it advertises the Mystery PBS presentation of Father Brown. Hosted by Vincent Price, this is a fabulous piece of television history.

Year: 1974

Size: 30 x 30 inches

Based on the famous LOVE sculpture in New York City, this poster expresses a similar idea--the simple necessity of freedom. You can interpret this however you like.

Year: 1975.

Size: 30 x 45 inches

On the occasion of a 1983 exhibition of Prechtl's work in New York, a writer deliciously described this watercolor used to promote a satiric book: ". . . avuncular Leonardo da Vinci doesn't seem to notice Dr. Sigmund Freud, even though the curious old analyst is almost hugging him . . . so he can expose what's hidden in the painter's flowing beard: . . . a naked, pouting Mona Lisa wearing a metal collar and handcuffs, linked with a metal compass whose points touch her breasts." Below Prechtl's witty, free-association image is a fake Freud quote and laudatory praise from various irreverent voices of the day. The book itself was written by Mark PodwalÐthen a recent medical school graduate, now one of America's leading dermatologists. It pokes fun, through satiric pen-and-ink drawings, at Freud's interpretation of great art.

Year: 1978.

Size: 30 x 45 inches

This poster depicting a giant red heart adorning the top of One Times Square-the geographic center of New York City-epitomizes the spirit of "I Love New York" born during the festive, fervent mayorship of John V. Lindsay. Lurker's ultimate hope was to paint his valentine to the city as a mural on the tower's white marble facade. He published this poster as an "in-progress documentary" showing how the work would look at several steps along the way. The poster was sold in city bookstores and souvenir shops, much to the puzzlement of natives and the disappointment of tourists who couldn't find the real deal. Lurker was born in Ulm, Germany, and received his education in Stuttgart, Hamburg and the University of Kansas. Since 1968, he has worked in New York as a sculptor and designer of kinetic works. His reputation has won him commissions from many museums throughout the world including New York's Museum of Modern Art, and his giant play-sculptures were featured prominently on the site of the 1972 Olympics in Munich.

Year: 1970

Size: 30 x 45 inches

In an early gesture of cultural pluralism, the "Great ldeas of Western Man” series included this bow to Eastern civilization. Fong’s outsize Chinese pictogram for generosity accompanies a quote from one of the legendary founders of Taoism: "He who obtains has little, he who scatters has much."

Year: 1970

Size: 30 x 45 inches

Produced by the Container Corps of America, this poster is part of a series dedicated to the Great Ideas of Western/Eastern Man. In this particular image, the Surrealist artist Magritte illustrates George Santayana's great truth in The Life of Reason: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Year: 1982.

Size: 24 x 46 inches

Glaser represented the illustrator's twin talents through a series of signing hands with a stylized eye drawn in each palm. Against the black background, the rainbow striations of color vibrate and shimmer.

1980

30 x 46 inches

Printed in 1980, it was created to promote an exhibition entitled "Greek Art of the Aegean Islands" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Year: 1971

Size: 25 x 38 inches

This is an ORIGINAL FIRST PRINTING of this poster by Tomi Ungerer (creator of Schoolhouse Rock) showcasing the famous fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. 

Year: 1968

Size: 29 3/8 x 44 7/8 inches

Cutting across northern Manhattan from river to river is Harlem's main drag: 125th Street. The jazzy night photo is cut into a giant "H" that showcases the area's bright lights and historic Apollo Theater.

Year: ca. 1969.

Size: 25 x 38 inches

Only at New York’s most exciting Discotheque could a 1920s flapper tango with a Spanish guitarist.

Year: 1969.

Size: 24 x 37 inches

As part of its program to encourage young people to enter careers in the health and hospital field, the American Hospital Association sent health-careers kits to schools, hospitals, and health groups across the United States. In 1969, Tomi was commissioned to design the materials for this kit, which included posters, postcards, tray favors, and wall folders. The poster, which had a printing of over 100,000 copies, was to be hung on elementary school and library walls. 

Year: 1979.

Size: 22 x 34 inches

Israeli-born Farin painted a series of about ten images for Art d'Lugoff's Village Gate, the crowded, smoky Greenwich Village haven to jazz musicians and aficionados alike. The same year that he created a design for Dizzy Gillespie appearing at the downtown jazz den, the appearance of jazz flautist Herbie Mann at the Village Gate put Farin in a mystical mood. He places the musician against a backdrop of earth and sky and inspires him with the light of a guiding star -- an image both warm and serene that evokes Mann's playing perfectly.

Year: 1971

Size: 30 x 45 inches

Year: 1976

Size: 30 x 46 inches

Printed in 1976, it advertises the latest art book published by Abrams entitled Hidden Images: Anamorphoses.

It showcases the secrets behind illusion art. With this poster, if you put a bit of reflective foil around the center, you will see the complete image un-warped.

Year: 1977.

Size: 30 x 46 inches

Derek Jacobi starred in this imaginative memoir of an ancient Roman Emperor, but evil was the real star of the show. A cup of poisoned wine and a serpent with a fatal bite were two of the tools of betrayal, and Chwast arranged them atop an ingenious portrait of Claudius constructed as a crumbling mosaic.

Year: 1974

Size: 23 1/4 x 33 inches

Printed in 1974, it shows a hooded woman pouring the waters of the earth into the clouds, forming a rainbow. Meanwhile, she stands in space. Below it reads Aquarius Times/Illumination.