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An original 1975 exhibition poster for a show of James Rosenquist paintings at Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles in December 1975 to January 1976. Printed in multiple colors including silver metallic ink for the nails. An unfolded and unmailed copy. Printed in U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good, light edgewear and some soft creases along left side edge.
Item #1419
The oversize poster for a 1985/1986 Susan Rothenberg exhibit at the Portland Center for Visual Art. PCVA was an artist-run center for contemporary in Portland, founded in 1971 and operating until 1987, that brought many national yet still emerging artists of the period to the west coast, including Richard Serra, Lynda Benglis, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Meredith Monk, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson, Bruce Nauman and others. The work appearing on the poster is "Mondrian," 1983, oil on canvas. The poster was printed by Universal Limited Art Editions of West Islip.....
Item #1085
The flyer for Smithson's February 1-27, 1969 exhibit at Dwan Gallery, New York. One side is printed with the exhibition dates and venue, the other with a sliver of a map running from Mono Lake, California to New York City, the "site" and "nonsite" for the work. Smithson, Michael Heizer and Nancy Holt traveled to Mono Lake in July 1968 and filmed their visit. Holt and Smithson originally planned to edit the footage together, but the film was put aside until 2004 when it was edited by Holt for the.....
Item #1325
The complete set of four exhibition postcards for the Dwan Gallery's highly-influential "Language Shows," beginning with 1967's "Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read" curated by Robert Smithson and Sol LeWitt. The Dwan Gallery was among the first to produce exhibits focusing on language, and the 1967 group show brought together works by Duchamp, Smithson, LeWitt, On Kawara, Jasper Johns, Carl Andre, Picabia and Ad Reinhardt, among others. In the book "Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art" Liz Kotz writes: "The four exhibitions helped.....
Item #922
Two postcards from the 22-card "Monsters are Inoffensive" set of "Flux Postcards"
Condition: Fine, slightest of creases at one corner on each postcard.
Item #29
The exhibition flyer for the Tàpies exhibit at Martha Jackson Gallery from March 15-April 8, 1961. The word "opening," which appears before the date on the flyer, has been redacted with a black pen, closely matching the black background, possibly because the opening was cancelled.
Condition: Very Good, minor loss of black printing along edges of top left corner and bottom; one word blacked out with marker (as noted above); folded as issued.
Item #626
The Tuttle-designed poster for his Dallas Exercises exhibit at the Ugo Ferranti Gallery in Rome from December 14, 1979 to January 14, 1980. The gallery exhibited the greats of minimal and conceptual art from 1974-2014.
Condition: Near Fine.
Item #1234
A circa 1967 fold-out brochure soliciting charter members for the renovation and new buildings of the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena), which opened in November of 1969. The Pasadena Art Museum has played an important role in the history of post-war art, and California art in particular. Walter Hopps, who formed L.A.'s famous Ferus Gallery with Edward Kienholz, was the Director from 1964-1967 and organized the first American retrospective of Marcel Duchamp there in 1963. Includes three items: a fold-out brochure showing architectural.....
Item #477
An oversize poster by painter and printmaker Terry Winters for the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum). Printed by Universal Limited Art Editions.
Condition: Fine.
Item #1087
