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An exhibition poster tri-folded as issued appropriately printed on fine heavy stock paper. The Oregon School of Arts and Crafts (now named Oregon College of Arts and Crafts) PAPER exhibition included: Elizabeth Anderson, Tim Ely, Kindra Myron, Suzanne Ferris, John Laursen, and Margaret Ahrens Sahlstrand.
Condition: Fine, offset color lithograph folded as issued.
Item #242
Tri-fold exhibition announcement for a Patrick Heron show in New York from April 2-21, 1962. Heron, a British abstract artist, is known for his studies in form and color. The announcement includes an illustration, a short biographical timeline, a list of institutions holding Heron's work and gives a nod to the forthcoming Tadé show on the back.
Condition: Very Good, 1/2" tear to one fold; scattered occasional soft creasing; folded as issued.
Item #681
Paul Brach was the founding dean of the School of Art at the California Institute from 1969 to 1975. There he was responsible for hiring John Baldessari and Allan Kaprow, among others. Together they created an experimental institution from which emerged: David Salle, Eric Fischl, Barbara Bloom, Jack Goldstein and others. Brach was one of the first artists to exhibit at Leo Castelli and assisted in the planning/formation of the gallery. As an important figure in both the East and West coast scenes, he also was a regular at the.....
Item #791
Announcement for a Paul Jenkins exhibition at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York City from October 3-21, 1961. Jenkins, an abstract expressionist known for using guided flow to create his works, had his first solo exhibition in New York at the Martha Jackson Gallery in 1956, and showed there regularly through the mid-1970s.
Condition: Very Good+, folded as issued; faint additional soft crease at fold.
Item #694
An oversize exhibition postcard/flyer on heavy cardstock for the second exhibition (November, 1968) at the Paula Cooper Gallery (also claiming to be the first gallery in SoHo). The exhibition featured work by Diao, Di Suvero, Forakis, Ginnever, Huot, Kirschenbaum, Melcher, Myers, Quaytman, Ruda, Shields and Valledor.
Condition: Near Fine, very slight bump to top left corner visible only on the back side of card.
Item #614
The Portland Center for the Visual Arts was an exhibition space founded by artists in 1971. The gallery exhibited artists such as Eleanor Antin, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson, Robert Irwin, and Bruce Nauman, along with many Northwest artists. This event poster features upcoming performances and exhibitions by Buster Simpson, Aleck Karis, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Fay Jones and Deborah Slater.
Condition: Fine two-color brochure printed on newsprint, unmailed, folded as issued.
Item #245
An original concert flyer for Public Image, Ltd. (featuring Johnny Lydon, Keith Levene and Wobble) at the Greek Theater in Berkeley on May 10, 1980.
Condition: Fine.
Item #1154
An original concert flyer for Public Image, Ltd. with the Mutants and Pompeii 99 at the Hollywood Palladium on June 10, 1983. Also an early Goldenvoice poster, which promoted its first concert in 1981.
Condition: Near Fine, a few soft creases and surface dimples to flyer.
Item #1155
An early flyer for Poison Idea and Fair Warning at Portland's legendary club Satyricon, which had only been open a few months as of the time of this show in August of 1984. Also a rare all ages show at the club before the state liquor commission revoked allowing minors at rock venues in Portland.
Condition: Good, but with 50+ pinholes or staple holes to flyer likely from being on a bulletin board.
Item #1257
A folded exhibition flyer for a Raymond Parker exhibition at Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles in October, 1962. Raymond Parker was an Abstract Expressionist painter and was also associated with Color Field painting. He was an influential member in the movement coined by Clement Greenburg as Post-Painterly Abstraction. The inside of the flyer features one of Parker's Color Field paintings, Untitiled,1962.
Condition: Very Good, faint light yellow soiling to front of flyer.
Item #635
An original concert flyer for Roy Loney (formerly of the Flamin' Groovies) and the Phantom Movers, plus Eye Protection with Black Flag Opening! At the Temple in San Francisco on February 1, 1980. Loney, a much-loved and longtime member of the Bay Area music scene, and a trail blazer in early garage rock during the psychedelic era, died in December of 2019.
Condition: Fine.
Item #1156
Oregon ceramic workshop poster featuring several images of pottery fires produced in connection with the 3rd Annual Salt-Fire Workshop in 1974. The workshops included raku sessions, wheel building, communal meals and a sweat lodge. Located near The Dalles, two hours east of Portland, Oregon, the event exemplifies the back to land and craft movements prevalent in Oregon's '70s counterculture. The poster advertises that the workshops occur on a "functioning organic homestead" and that P.K. Hoffman (the American ceramist who studied with the some of the greats of the American Revolution.....
Item #241
The exhibiton poster for Salvatore Scarpitta's (1919-2007) June/July, 1961 show at Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles. Known for his wrapped and shaped canvases, Scarpitta was represented by Leo Castelli for almost his entire career and had ten solo shows with Castelli in New York. He was also the owner of a sprint car racing team, and automobile themes sometimes showed up in his artworks, which were often seen as a bridge between American Pop and Italian Arte Povera. In 2014, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC presented a major exhibiton of.....
Item #793
A poster advocating for rent control in the San Francisco Bay area, with references to a rent control initiative of 1975. With a cartoon of the thumb of "High Rents, Bad Conditions and Arbitrary Evictions" pressing down on the tenants. With a union printing bug.
Condition: Very Good-, some creasing to poster.
Item #1232
An invitational exhibition sponsored by the Northwest Institute of Sculpture provides a snapshot into the materials, prices and artists of the day. This exhibition was housed at the Seattle Art Museum Pavilion with the aim to present recent work of primarily Washington based sculptors and include a few regional sculptors in a non-juried show. Some of the artists included were Manuel Izquierdo, Betty Feves, Jan Zach, Lee Kelly, George Tsutakawa and Phillip Levine. A great addition to your NW art history ephemera collection.
Condition: Very Good, folded as issued; some.....
Item #500
Abstract expressionist Boardman, studied in France and had his first American solo show at the Martha Jackson Gallery. Buddies with Ryman and other key abstract painters, Boardman's project occupies an area between Avery, Rothko, Still and Alma Thomas. This item is the poster for his May/June 1960 exhibit of paintings at the Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles.
Condition: Fine, folded as issued.
Item #792
The folded exhibition announcement card for a group exhibit of sculptors at the Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles in October of 1961. Artists in the exhibit were Peter Agostini, Lee Bontecou, César, John Chamberlain, Edward Higgins and Louise Nevelson.
Condition: Fine.
Item #460
Flyer promoting the Socialist Workers Party in the 1969 election. One side features the candidates for New York City government offices with Paul Boutelle for mayor, while the other spells out the Party's platform. The SWP formed in 1937 as a splinter group of Trotskyists from the Socialist Party and went through several major transformations over the following decades. By the late 1960s, the SWP was strongly involved in the Black nationalist movement, the anti-Vietnam-war effort and women's rights, all of which are strongly represented on this flyer.
Condition: Very.....
Item #682
Announcement of and invitation to join the SCU, a moderate student organization dedicated to nonviolent dialogue and academic freedom. The SCU was founded in May 1968 in direct opposition to the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and its violent activities. This flyer states that the SCU is involved in university restructuring, position papers, study groups, campus debates and social activities and warned that another violent spring could threaten the very existence of Columbia. The flyer is stamped March 17, 1969 at the bottom.
Condition: Near Fine, mild toning; stamped.....
Item #722
The poster for Sven Lukin's solo exhibition at the Martha Jackson Gallery, New York from May 29-June 22, 1962, with his name printed in green/gold letters (outlined in black) and against a black background. Due to the darkness of the letters and the background, the poster image is difficult to reproduce - the black background printing is actualy consistent overall, and not lighter in the middle as it appears in the item image. The Latvian born Lukin arrived in New York in 1958, and was one of five painters included in.....
Item #593
An exhibition flyer for the 1961 Salem exhibit Today in a Fur-Lined Tea Cup, an extended version of a riotous Dada-influenced Portland exhibit entitled Exhibition Syndrome that preceded it. The exhibit was an homage to Dada and its influence on local artists. A one-act Dada opera, An American Travesty, written by Portland composer and teacher Robert Crowley, was also performed. On the reverse of the folded flyer is an announcement for Paintings by Ruth Fluno at the Salem Art Museum-Bush House.
Condition: Fine, some slight transfer of black printing to.....
Item #43
The Ski Hut was one of the most influential sources for modern, lightweight, backpacking and climbing gear in the '50s and '60s on the West Coast. The Ski Hut began making their own gear under the brand "Trailwise" in the late '50s. North Face and Sierra Designs claim to have got their start in the industry through Trailwise. This Trailwise catalog was produced during a critical and formative time for the company and industry; it is rich with product illustrations and descriptions and would be inspiring resource for the backpacking.....
Item #488
A typography specimen poster from the Bauer Alphabets company whose slogan was "the types of today and tomorrow". Includes samples of the following font families in a variety of styles and point sizes: Weiss, Futura, Corvinus, Bauer Bodoni, Beton and Cartoon. Also shows one-line examples of eight additional typefaces. Uniquely, three corners of the poster are rounded.
Condition: Poster: Good+, unfolded; some light surface wear/light creasing likely from being rolled; .5" closed tear at left middle.
Item #959
A handsome two-color typography specimen poster of the Bulmer roman and italic typefonts, produced by the Eastern Corporation paper company to highlight their paper product and its printing attributes. The Bulmer font was originally designed and cut in England, about 1786, by William Martin for the printer W. Bulmer at the Shakespeare Press. The font is displayed in sizes ranging from 6 to 48 point. The poster is printed on Eastern's Atlantic Antique Laid 24lb. paper, which is "uniform in every respect, its tub-sized surfaces take print equally well on.....
Item #952
A three-color typography specimen poster of the font Cloister Black, produced by the Eastern Corporation paper company to highlight their paper product and its printing attributes. The font in displayed in 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24, 30 and 36 point sizes and in a passage from the gospel of St. Luke. The poster is printed on Eastern's Atlantic Antique Laid Cream, Substance 24 paper, which is "an impressive paper worthy of the finest printing" that will "impress the most critical customer"
Condition: Very Good, folded as issued; minor.....
Item #949
