Contemporary

Year: ca. 1975

Size: 30 x 45 inches

Printed in the mid-1970s, it advertises Vaudeville, a televised production sponsored by MetroMedia. It featured Milton Berle, The Wiere Brothers & Katie, Paul Fidler, Nick Lucas, Gene Bell, Scotty Plummer, and Irv Benson.

Year: 1970

Size: 30 x 45 inches

Printed in 1970, it was created to advertise his exhibition in Vienna/Wein.

Year: 1977

Size: 30 x 46 inches

This is the ORIGINAL FIRST PRINTING of this poster by the artistic duo Chermayeff and Geismar. Printed in 1977, it was created to advertise the made-for-tv mini-series of Minstrel Man, the story of 2 black men working in show biz during the early 20th century.

Year: 1980

Size: 30 x 46 inches

Printed ca. 1980, it was put out by PBS to advertise their Sunday night recaps of all the Great Moments in Sports. From hockey to baseball, football to horseracing, basketball to boxing, they covered all sports.

Year: 1982.

Size: 24 x 36 inches

In this exhibition poster for a retrospective of the Impressionist master’s works, much of the paper is unused, the upper part of the face is in shadow and the lower part is obscured by a beard—yet the image is definitive. Writing about a drawing of Whitman, Glaser notes, "Over a period of years I discovered that my best portraits

Year: 1976

Size: 24 x 30 inches

Year: 1976

Size: 24 x 33 inches

Used to promote the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, the poster shows a  classical Greek woman holding a candle, with a modern-day runner speeding by with the torch in front of her.

Year: 1976

Size: 25 x 38 inches

This poster features Amik, the mascot of the 1976 Summer Olympics. "In the Algonquin language, amik means "beaver." A national competition was held to name it. The beaver or "amik" was chosen as mascot because it is an animal strongly associated with Canada, the country where the games were held. The beaver also represents hard work." - Wikipedia

Year: 1969

Size: 24 x 37 inches

Printed in 1969, it was created to advertise an evening in Central Park revolving around the first landing on the Moon. 

It states: "Moon Site: A Lunar Vigil in Central Park, Sheep Meadow July 20-21, 1969. 10:30 PM until the Moonwalk at 2:20 AM." The attractions listed to go along with this event include: "Live TV coverage from The Moon via CBS, NBC, and ABC; The Moon in The Movies - A Film Collage; The Moon in the Future - A Tape by Buckminster Fuller; Moon Music; Moon Food; Moon Gazing." 

This is truly one of the most historic and interesting posters in our inventory!

Condition A-/ slight creases at top edge.

Year: 1979

Size: 23 1/2 x 32 1/2 inches

This poster promotes the need for a non-nuclear future and one of the first benefit concerts for the group Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) held in Battery Park City, New York (at that time, still an unoccupied landfill). The concert's mission was to find greener energy sources.

Year: 1978.

Size: 30 x 45 inches

Printed in 1978, it was created to announce the opening of the Musée de l'Affiche in Paris. Featuring a well-dressed fellow with a sheet of paper as a head (this is a Poster Museum, after all), he is bowing in greeting to all those who care to visit the museum.

Year: 1967.

Size: 33 x 47 inches

Music of a visibly different stripe. The close harmonies of an Argentine chorus performing traditional songs come to life in this group of heads emerging from a base patterned like a native shawl.

Year: 1981.

Size: 30 x 45 inches

This poster advertises the second season of PBS' Mystery! anthology series.

Year: 1981

Size: 24 x 38 inches

Printed in 1981, it advertises a production of Napoleon: Abel Gance's 1927 Masterpiece performed at New York City's Radio City Music Hall.

Year: 1978

30 x 46 inches

Printed in 1978, it was created to advertise an exhibition of the Edvard Munch's work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Year: 1983.

Size: 30 x 46 inches

A nine-hour broadcast on two nights, this was the televising of the marathon English production that brought Dickens to Broadway. The penniless title character is seen here, played by Roger Reese, trying to make sense of life as a host of side characters make their way all over him. Chwast's humorous line seems especially well-suited to this bunch of tatty theatrical troupers, criminals, cripples and pure-hearted maidens.

Year: 1968

Size: 25 x 38 inches

Printed in 1968, it was created to advertise the play Now.