Original Midcentury Modern Herman Miller Summer Company Picnic Series Watermelon Poster 1971 de Frykholm, Steven - 1971

Brookline, MA: David R, Godine A handsome broadside, 22" w x 31" h, featuring a 15" h x 20 ' w photogravure, printed by Joh. Enschede, Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, portraying a Civil War encampment with wounded soldiers resting beneath trees. Underneath, the quote, taken from Whitman's "Democratic Vistas:, note 2. "The whole present system of the officering and personnel of the army and navy of these States, and the spirit and letter of their trebly-aristocratic rules and regulations, is a monstrous exotic, a nuisance and revolt, and belong here just as much as orders of nobility, or the Pope's council of cardinals. I say if the present theory of our army and navy is sensible and true, then the rest of America is an unmitigated fraud. Walt Whitman". Printed on Cartridge Paper made by Schut, Heelsum, Holland and calligraphy by Bram De Does. No date, circa 1972. Near Fine, faint creases at edges. SCARCE. First Printing. Broadside. Near Fine. 22" w x… Leer más

Brookline, MA: David R, Godine SCARCE a haunting and prophetic broadside, Whitman's words written in 1871 following the Civil War as relevant today as then. 22" w x 30 1/2" h, featuring a 20" w x 19/12" h photogravure, printed by Joh. Enschede, Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, portraying Walt Whitman in profile, enlarged reproduction of 1891 photograph of Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakin at head of text. Underneath, the quote, taken from Whitman's "Democratic Vistas": " We have frequently printed the word Democracy. Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawaken'd, notwithstanding the resonance and many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted. It is in some sort, younger brother of another great and often-used word, NATURE, whose history also waits unwritten. WALT… Leer más

London: X3 Posters RARE exhibition poster, no date, circa 1982- 1990, by Ken Meharg and Bob Linney, who ran the poster operation for Birmingham Arts Laboratory or Arts Lab, an experimental arts centre in Birmingham, until 1982. Posters from that era were featured in an international touring exhibition by the British Council between 1981 and 1985, and were the subject of an exhibition by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in 1998. They were known for their use of psychedelic imagery. Near Fine, small faint creases. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 20"w x 30"h.

London: X3 Posters RARE exhibition poster, no date, circa 1982- 1990 ( possibly 1989, the numbers 8 an 9 printed on the hands lower left), by Ken Meharg and Bob Linney, who ran the poster operation for Birmingham Arts Laboratory or Arts Lab, an experimental arts centre in Birmingham, until 1982. Posters from that era were featured in an international touring exhibition by the British Council between 1981 and 1985, and were the subject of an exhibition by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in 1998. They were known for their use of psychedelic imagery. Near Fine, small faint creases. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 19 3/4"w x 30"h.

Paris: Galerie Lahumiere , 1981. Original exhibition poster featuring Auguste Herbin's "Mer" 1945, a silkscreen which measures 25" x 19" within the larger poster, 28 1/4" x 37". An exhibition at this famous Paris gallery that featured the works of Geometric Abstarct artists, including Bauduin, Claisse, Dewasne, Herbin, D'Imbleval, Kowalski, Marcoussis, Magnelli, Poliakoff, Vasarely, and Villon. Near Fine, faint creases. A poster well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 28 1/4" x 37".

Brookline, MA: David R, Godine A handsome broadside, 22" w x 31" h, featuring a 15" h x 20 ' w photogravure, printed by Joh. Enschede, Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, portraying a Civil War encampment with wounded soldiers resting beneath trees. Underneath, the quote, taken from Whitman's "Democratic Vistas:, note 2. "The whole present system of the officering and personnel of the army and navy of these States, and the spirit and letter of their trebly-aristocratic rules and regulations, is a monstrous exotic, a nuisance and revolt, and belong here just as much as orders of nobility, or the Pope's council of cardinals. I say if the present theory of our army and navy is sensible and true, then the rest of America is an unmitigated fraud. Walt Whitman". Printed on Cartridge Paper made by Schut, Heelsum, Holland and calligraphy by Bram De Does. No date, circa 1972. Near Fine, faint creases at edges. SCARCE. First Printing. Broadside. Near Fine. 22" w x… Leer más

Brookline, MA: David R, Godine SCARCE a haunting and prophetic broadside, Whitman's words written in 1871 following the Civil War as relevant today as then. 22" w x 30 1/2" h, featuring a 20" w x 19/12" h photogravure, printed by Joh. Enschede, Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, portraying Walt Whitman in profile, enlarged reproduction of 1891 photograph of Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakin at head of text. Underneath, the quote, taken from Whitman's "Democratic Vistas": " We have frequently printed the word Democracy. Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawaken'd, notwithstanding the resonance and many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted. It is in some sort, younger brother of another great and often-used word, NATURE, whose history also waits unwritten. WALT… Leer más

London: X3 Posters RARE exhibition poster, no date, circa 1982- 1990, by Ken Meharg and Bob Linney, who ran the poster operation for Birmingham Arts Laboratory or Arts Lab, an experimental arts centre in Birmingham, until 1982. Posters from that era were featured in an international touring exhibition by the British Council between 1981 and 1985, and were the subject of an exhibition by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in 1998. They were known for their use of psychedelic imagery. Near Fine, small faint creases. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 20"w x 30"h.

London: X3 Posters RARE exhibition poster, no date, circa 1982- 1990 ( possibly 1989, the numbers 8 an 9 printed on the hands lower left), by Ken Meharg and Bob Linney, who ran the poster operation for Birmingham Arts Laboratory or Arts Lab, an experimental arts centre in Birmingham, until 1982. Posters from that era were featured in an international touring exhibition by the British Council between 1981 and 1985, and were the subject of an exhibition by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in 1998. They were known for their use of psychedelic imagery. Near Fine, small faint creases. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 19 3/4"w x 30"h.

Paris: Galerie Lahumiere , 1981. Original exhibition poster featuring Auguste Herbin's "Mer" 1945, a silkscreen which measures 25" x 19" within the larger poster, 28 1/4" x 37". An exhibition at this famous Paris gallery that featured the works of Geometric Abstarct artists, including Bauduin, Claisse, Dewasne, Herbin, D'Imbleval, Kowalski, Marcoussis, Magnelli, Poliakoff, Vasarely, and Villon. Near Fine, faint creases. A poster well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 28 1/4" x 37".