Counterculture '60s & '70s

Year: 1974

Size: 26 1/4 x 40 inches

Printed in 1974, it advertises the Premio Casa de Las Americas, and was printed in Cuba.

Year: 1969

Size: 24 3/4 x 17 3/4 in./62.9 x 45 cm

Condition: A

Printed in 1968 by students at the Rhode Island School of Design, this poster is part of a series created to protest the Vietnam War. This particular poster features a gas-masked anonymous person, with the quote "Is this the American Way" reading below. Supplies were donated by concerned supporters and the students ultimately made 8 posters in the series. They were sold for a few dollars that year, many being hung around college campuses and really wherever the students could slap them onto a wall. A complete collection of this series is held in the Library of Congress and is considered to be one of the more important examples of young activism in our country's history. 

Year: 1965

Size: 30 x 45 in./76.2 x 114.3 cm

Printed around 1965, this poster advertises Booth's Gin, asking the viewer to "Protest Against the Rising Tide of Conformity." The lower text reads "Serve Booth's House of Lords, the non-conformist gin from England."

Year: 1969

Size: 18 x 24 7/8 in./45.5 x 63.2 cm

Condition: A

Printed in 1968 by students at the Rhode Island School of Design, this poster is part of a series created to protest the Vietnam War. This particular poster features a raging bull with the quote "leave the fear of red to horned beasts" written below. Supplies were donated by concerned supporters and the students ultimately made 8 posters in the series. They were sold for a few dollars that year, many being hung around college campuses and really wherever the students could slap them onto a wall. A complete collection of this series is held in the Library of Congress and is considered to be one of the more important examples of young activism in our country's history. This is an EXCEPTIONALLY RARE poster.

Year: 1969

Size: 18 x 24 7/8 in./45.7 x 63.2 cm

Condition: A

Year: 1972.

Size: 25 x 38 in inches

In the 1960s and '70s, designer Paul Bacon teamed up with photographer Paul Weller and Alix Nelson to create a dozen or so posters dealing with environmental themes. This political poster made for George McGovern's unsuccessful presidential run against Republican candidate Richard Nixon was not a commission, but something that the three wanted to do, and they published it privately to help the campaign. The image is a fabric construction showing the American flag in the process of being assembled out of canvas-strips of red and white, a blue rectangle and white stars. The ornate script in the center instantaneously evokes the U. S. Constitution while it reinforces McGovern's image as a post-Vietnam healer. After starting his career designing jazz album covers, Bacon has gone on to become one of the most widely recognized book-jacket designers in the country.

Year: 1969

Size: 18 x 24 7/8 in./45.5 x 63.2 cm

Condition: A

Printed in 1968 by students at the Rhode Island School of Design, this poster is part of a series created to protest the Vietnam War. This particular poster features the saying "Peace is not healthy for generals and other killing things." Supplies were donated by concerned supporters and the students ultimately made 8 posters in the series. They were sold for a few dollars that year, many being hung around college campuses and really wherever the students could slap them onto a wall. A complete collection of this series is held in the Library of Congress and is considered to be one of the more important examples of young activism in our country's history.

Year: 1970

Size: 46 x 30 in./116.4 x 76.2 cm

This poster was created to advertise the magazine Ten Years to Go: The Magazine for Survival. Sadly, the magazine was never published, making this the only remaining evidence that it was ever going to happen. Frankly, now it's just a kitschy bit of humor for your wall.

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: 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: 1973

Size: 24 x 33 inches

This poster advertises the Japanese electronics manufacturer Sansui's QS Vario Matrix. "Sansui developed the QS Regular Matrix system, which made it possible to transmit four channel Quadraphonic sound from a standard LP. The channel separation was only 3 dB, but because of the human way of hearing it sounded relatively good. In 1973, Sansui introduced the more advanced QS Vario Matrix decoder with 20 dB separation." - Wikipedia

Year: 1968.

Size: 30 x 45 inches

In order to invoke the bitter and prolonged strike of the California grape pickers against repressive working conditions, Davis painted an emblematic portrait of a young laborer. The name of Cesar Chavez, embattled head at the time of the United Farm Workers in Delano, California, was added to announce a concert at New York City’s Carnegie Hall benefiting the cause. Support for the inflammatory issue not only lowered grape consumption in the United states, but resulted in International Grape Boycott Day on May 10, 1969.

Year: 1972.

Size: 30 x 45 inches

Here, Davis portrays presidential candidate George McGovern as a populist surrounded by Americans of every age and stripe to emphasize his appeal as a healing force in the Vietnam War. McGovern ran as the Democratic candidate against Republican Richard Nixon and was badly defeated.

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: 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.

Year: 1969

Size: 24 x 37 3/4 inches

Published by the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, this poster states that those who have been forced to fight in the war have the most right to oppose it.

Year: 1970

Size: 30 x 45 inches