NYC / Local Interest

Year: 1976.

Size: 30 x 45 inches

Poster portraits of the play's two leads: a pensive Meryl Streep with late actor John Cazale glowing in the background. Between 1975 and 1991, Davis created 51 posters for the New York Public Theater, the organization responsible for the free summer performances of Shakespeare in Central Park's open-air Delacorte Theater.

Year: 1965.

Size: 25 x 38 inches

The dancing miniskirted figure is a superb example of the loose, evocative illustrative style that made Eula highly sought after by fashion and theatrical clients alike during New York's go-go 1960s and 70s. This dance-til-dawn event was a production of the Cercle d'Or Club, run by Olivier Coquelin, the high-octane Frenchman who single-handedly created the city's discotheque scene in those years. Coquelin's establishments included Le Club, Hippopotamus and Cheetah.

Year: 1978.

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

Elson's photograph of the Shubert Theater at night captures all the glitter of The Great White Way -- a perfect visual equivalent for the quintessential theatrical piece about the the gypsies who make up the heart and soul of New York's fabled musical stage. The poster doubtless contributed to the musical's then record-breaking Broadway run: 6,137 performances between October 1975 and April 1990.

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: 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: 1983.

Size: 24 x 36 inches

Glaser titles this pastel-colored mini-movie "Mozart Sneezes." The irreverent nine-frame sequence captures the bad-boy genius of Leipzig in a personal, nonmusical moment. Truly inspired.

Year: 1968.

Size: 24 x 37 inches

Poppy was an unconventional '60s record company that Glaser had introduced with an image of a bright flower breaking through a stone monolith. Ironically, the company was so successful that it was ultimately sold to one of the established big companies it had positioned itself against. For this almost free concert of poppy recording artists (Townes Van Zandt, The Mandrake, Dick Gregory) taking place on Thanksgiving Eve at New York's Carnegie Hall ("$2.50-first come, first served"), Glaser continued the poppy motif with an engaging blossom-brained gobbler. The typeface-Neo-Futura-a stencil variation on the classic Bauhaus Futura alphabet-is only one of the many that he has created.

Year: 1968

Size: 25 x 38 inches

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

Year: 1978

Size: 30 x 45 inches

For this knockabout romantic comedy offered during the 22nd season of free summer Shakespeare, the sepia portraits of festival regulars Raul Julia as Petruchio and Meryl Streep as Kate are surprisingly serious. Between 1975 and 1991, Davis created 51 posters for the New York Public Theater, the organization responsible for the free summer performances of Shakespeare in Central Park's open-air Delacorte 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.