Contemporary

Year: 1971

Size: 15 7/8 x 29 7/8 inches

Debuting on Broadway (rather than London’s West End) on October 12, 1971, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar was one of the most revolutionary musicals of the era. This is the original advertising poster for that production, combining the traditional Byzantine-style image of Christ with the psychedelic palette of the San Francisco rock posters.

Year: 1978.

Size: 24 x 36 inches

In the style of Edward Hick's The Peaceable Kingdom, Hess portrays creatures great and small living in harmony with their natural enemy - humankind.

Year: 1991.

Size: 24 x 36 inches

Rarely has Cubism looked so engaging as in this image of a cello fellow bowing away—the fifth and final poster in Glaser’s TDK-sponsored series for Juilliard. The artist loves music, loves educational institutions, loves the shape of the cello—and it all shows

Year: 1976

Size: 24 x 37 inches

Celebrating the bicentennial, this poster announces the 4th of July celebration in New York City.

Year: 1979

30 x 46 inches

This is an ORIGINAL FIRST PRINTING of this poster by Ivan Chermayeff. Printed 1979, it advertises the PBS/Masterpiece Theatre presentation of Kean. The caption reads: "A legend for his performances -- both on stage and off."

Year: 1976

Size: 23 x 33 1/4 inches

This image was used to promote the 1976 Summer Olympics in Kingston. Shown are a fleet of boats riding waves the colors of the Olympic rings.

Year: 1987.

Size: 23 x 36 inches

Although most of Glaser's posters are for cultural events or institutions, this commission was occasioned by the bicentennial of the United States Constitution. A blocky profile of blind justice dominates the design. The panel below it has a vague flavor of Grecian columns, suggesting classical virtues and Parthenon-style courthouse architecture.

Year: 1977.

Size: 30 x 45 inches

The image of Leonard Crow Dog, Sioux medicine man and prominent figure in the Native American community, advertises a documentary film concerning Sioux grievances with the U.S. government after the shameful violence of Wounded Knee. Accented with Davis' trademark stencil lettering, the portrait is full of dignity and silent outrage – a superb addition to his gallery of proud faces.

Year: 1972

Size: 30 x 45 inches

This poster advertises the book of the same title about the history of the Jewish people. The text to the right reads: "In every generation, each Jew must regard himself as though he personally were brought out of Egypt."

Year: ca. 1980

30 x 46 inches

Printed ca. 1980, it advertises the Masterpiece Theatre production of Lillie.

Year: 1968

Size: 30 x 45 inches

In 1968, the Container Corporation of America came out with a series of posters entitled 'Aspects of New York City.' They were hung in parks, subways, neighborhood clubs, and churches with the goal of improving the quality of the city's public surroundings. Today, the ten-poster series is known as one of the most inventive and distinguished public arts projects of the 20th century, with a complete set residing in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. These images appear in countless books on Modern Graphics and are highly valued amongst collectors. 

Year: 1989.

Size: 24 x 36 inches

A handsomely-colored contemporary harlequin announces the anniversary season of this prestigious theater company in New Haven, Connecticut.

Year: 1981.

Size: 30 x 45 inches

A Chuck Wilkinson design for a Masterpiece Theater presentation. The vehicle was an adaptation of a work by Nancy Mitford, whose witty, satiric novels read like memoirs of her own eccentric upper-class family. Wilkinson's well-mannered dancing couples have the still, strangled quality of their class and time. As the poster text so aptly puts it, "They were brought up to marry – not fall in love."

Year: ca. 1986

Size: 30 x 46 inches

This is an ORIGINAL FIRST PRINTING of this poster by David Palladini. Printed ca. 1986, it advertises the PBS/Mobil Mystery! presentation of Malice Aforethought, based on the novel by Francis Iles. Hosted by Vincent Price, the caption reads: The story of a country doctor whose hobby was murder.

Year: 1977.

Size: 25 x 38 inches

From 1977-1987, this New York watering hole followed the summer migration of its well-heeled clientele and moved weekend headquarters to the beach. Two bottles composed of collaged snippets of type and photographs announce that the summer locale is open for business.

Year: 1979

Size: 30 x 46 inches

Printed in 1979, it advertises the 1979-1980 season of Masterpiece Theatre. Shown is the side of a building in a parking lot, covered with posters from all of PBS's favorite shows that year: Kean, Love for Lydia, Prince Regent, The Duchess of Duke Street, Disraeli, and Lillie.

Year: 1968.

Size: 25 x 38 inches

When Eugene McCarthy ran for President in 1968 against Lyndon Johnson, his candidacy was based upon his opposition to the war in Vietnam. As a prominent pacifist, Shahn was the perfect artist to create a campaign poster for McCarthy, the patriotically-colored dove promoting peace at last.