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June 26, 2014
Sunday hats
Tony Palladino created this indelible image for an SVA poster in 1989.
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June 03, 2014
On the same wavelength
The BFA Fine Arts department has long shown film or video art in the SVA Amphitheatre. These rough posters, spanning three decades, announce screenings of milestone works.
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May 23, 2014
Don’t make ’em like this anymore
I especially like identity systems when they are applied to things that might seem outside of the purview of corporate promotions. So with this SVA check designed by George Tscherny, circa 1956.
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May 06, 2014
Talent show
SVA’s subway posters established the school’s graphic presence by using abstract concepts to convey a deeply pragmatic message.
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March 17, 2014
Tscherny’s flag motif
One of George Tscherny’s graphic hobbyhorses was the jumbled appearance of type on an undulating surface.
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March 15, 2014
Do you see what I see?
A symposium of “provocative visual material” inspired Milton Glaser to come up with some of his own.
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March 10, 2014
Fashion Illustration at SVA
Fashion illustration was a popular pursuit at SVA in the 1960s.
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February 12, 2014
Significant figures
Milton Glaser’s menagerie of figures for the School of Visual Arts, 1971.
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December 17, 2013
Early LeWitt
We love our LeWitt here at Container List, and we recently found some very early exhibition announcements for his work at SVA and other galleries.
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November 20, 2013
Working drawings
Milton Glaser’s sketch for the Working drawings and other visible things on paper not necessarily meant to be viewed as art poster became a part of the artwork.
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November 12, 2013
To see a fine lady upon a white horse
A 1961 exhibition of the work of the SVA Department of Illustration is a who’s who of the practitioners of the new expressive and painterly illustration of the time.
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November 02, 2013
Squigglyman Meets Captain Cross-Hatch
Squigglyman and Captain Cross-Hatch will be back right after they foil Dr. Ugg, who is about to detonate his diabolical Gloomsday Device.
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October 01, 2013
I can see right through you
Henry Wolf created this School of Visual Arts course announcement for his friend, photographer Melvin Sokolsky.
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September 16, 2013
One of these mornings
Labor Day has come and gone, and the Autumn equinox is only a week away; as a send-off to summer, I dug up this charming 1984 promotion for a show at the Visual Arts Museum, featuring a motley assortment of artists—just about everybody under the sun: Fernando Botero, Red Grooms, Alex Katz, Richard Prince, and plenty of others (click through for a list).
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September 03, 2013
George Tscherny’s brushwork
This detail for a 1956 poster for the Cartoonist & Illustrators School by George Tscherny. Rebranded as the School of Visual Arts later that year, the designer had a long and fruitful relationship with the institution.
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August 31, 2013
Milton Glaser’s SVA: A Legacy of Graphic Design
A retrospective of Milton’s Glaser’s design work for SVA opens today at SVA’s Visual Arts Gallery (601 W. 26th Street, NYC).
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August 24, 2013
Department of the newly uncovered
We just uncovered a long-lost poster for the seminal conceptual art exhibit, Working drawings and other visible things on paper not necessarily meant to be viewed as art (Visual Arts Gallery, December 2 – December 23, 1966). Initially asked by gallery director Shirley Glaser to organize a Christmas show of drawings, Mel Bochner collected notes, sketches, and diagrams from artist friends (as well as mathematicians, biologists, choreographers, and engineers). He ultimately photocopied the working drawings (using SVA’s brand new Xerox machine), placed them into four identical binders, and mounted them on pedestals in the gallery.
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August 04, 2013
Produce as land mass
We recently received a wonderful donation from James McMullan, and while I was looking for a few things to feature in a sneak peek, I came across this illustration he did for Push Pin of Long Island as a potato.
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July 15, 2013
SVA Continuing Education courses in the ’60s
During the 1960s, SVA published a series of course announcements advertising the practical aspects of its evening classes. The text was often dry but the graphics were playful and eye-catching. Here, having some fun with type, are Ivan Chermayeff and Tony Palladino. Chermayeff and Bob Gill are after the jump.
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July 07, 2013
Twombly at SVA
Cy Twombly was the subject of two solo exhibitions at SVA, in 1973 and 1977, just before his idiosyncratic work found new favor with the rising generation of neo-Expressionists.
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School of Visual Arts Archive
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SVA Historical Event Recordings
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Gail Anderson Collection
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SVA COVID Collection
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Ed Benguiat Collection
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SVA Publications and Institutional Records
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Ivan Chermayeff Collection
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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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Roger Ferriter Collection
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Louise Fili Collection
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Cris Gianakos Collection
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Bob Gill Collection
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Milton Glaser Collection
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Keith Godard Collection
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Steven Heller Collection
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David Mazzucchelli Collection
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Ed McCabe Collection
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James McMullan Collection
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Tony Palladino Collection
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Stefan Sagmeister Collection
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Paul Sahre Collection
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Deborah Sussman Collection
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Fred Troller Collection
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George Tscherny Collection
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Henry Wolf Collection