SVA Subway Posters

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SVA has produced more than 200 posters for the New York City subway platforms, in the process creating one of the most enduring public art projects in the City. This is a complete overview of the subway poster campaign, from the earliest posters when SVA was known as Cartoonists and Illustrators School to the most current posters now displayed in subway stations.

Posters depicts: Gaugin's self portrait behind a simple depiction of a bank teller station against a white background.

At 35, Paul Gauguin Worked In a Bank. It Is Never Too Late.

Posters depicts: Illustration of a painting palette with a rainbow and clouds running through it.

School of Visual Arts Department of Fine Arts

Posters depicts: Illustration of a grid of yellow and black doors, each open to reveal a major of SVA (circa 1967)

Posters depicts: Pastel cylinders made of graph paper and stacked on top of each other, against a background of graph paper.

Get Your Head Together at SVA. Night School at the School of Visual Arts

Posters depicts: Man looking into camera

Film School / School of Visual Arts

Posters depicts: Black block text against white background.

How To Be a Good Commercial Artist

Posters depicts: Grid of 4 text-based ads for car wax, seatbelts, frozen vegetables, and Better Vision Institute

These Ads Were Done By Students. You Learn Better When You Study With the Best.

Posters depicts: Photograph of a half-blank pocket watch against a white background; the hands are pointed towards the blank half.

Art Is a Clock That Moves Too Fast When Measured By the Public's Sense of Time

Posters depicts: Photograph of a Roman bust of a man's head with a forest scene painted on it.

Our Faculty Has Empathy, Imagination, Enthusiasm. You Benefit.

Posters depicts: Blue text against white background. Black and white grid of photos of various SVA alumni.

I Got My Job Through the School of Visual Arts. You Learn Better When You Study With the Best poster

Posters depicts: White orange and purple box, crumpled to resembled a piece of paper, with the letters SVA on it against a white background.

SVA: School of Visual Arts (flag)

Posters depicts: Trisected image; each box contains a blue illustration of a different motion of a seated woman smoking a cigarette.

School of Visual Arts (woman in chair smoking)

Posters depicts: The Heart Has Its Own Reasons

The Heart Has Its Own Reasons

Posters depicts: A technical illustration of an ellipse compass against a sheet of green co-ordinate graph paper.

Technical Illustration / Airbrush Rendering / Photo Retouching

Posters depicts: A drawing of the nib of a ruling pen with ink coming out in messy blotches and swirls suggesting a rocket taking off and its exhaust, against a background of thin, horizontal red lines increasingly closer together toward the bottom of the poster.

Technical Illustration Airbrush Rendering Photo Retouching

Posters depicts: Delicate black and white photo of an egg cracked at one end, with red text against a white background.

Every Wall Is a Door

Posters depicts: Black and white photograph of one man, facing the viewer and painting on an easel; a second man faces away from the viewer and paints the wall bright red.

The School of Visual Arts Has Moved To Its New Art Center / 209-13 E. 23 St. NYC

Posters depicts: Purple and red illustration of someone parachuting out of a 1900s airplane.

When Logics Die, the Secret of the Soil Grows Through the Eye, and the Blood Jumps in the Sun

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