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August 31, 2014
Use your head
SVA’s early subway posters helped raise the school to a new plane of artistic and intellectual pursuits.
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February 15, 2012
Phil Hays for SVA
This is a detail from possibly my all-time favorite SVA poster (click through for the whole image). It was illustrated by Phil Hays in the 1960s while he was chairman of SVA’s illustration department. Hays’ later work, especially his portraits of musicians and Hollywood stars, was markedly more hyperrealistic and decadent than this simple three-pane poster of a woman sitting in a chair, smoking. At first it seems something of a strange ad pitch, yet the subject is serene and satisfied and the work is masterly, somehow making the argument for SVA in its inherent quality.
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Ralph Caplan Collection
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Chermayeff & Geismar Collection
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Seymour Chwast Collection
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Stephen Doyle Collection
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Heinz Edelmann Collection
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Richard Wilde Papers
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Cris Gianakos Collection
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Bob Gill Collection
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James McMullan Collection
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Tony Palladino Collection
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Paul Sahre Collection
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