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Cubism is a poster highlighting the 2014 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York entitled Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection. The exhibition traced the invention and development of Cubism using iconic examples from the Leonard A. Lauder collection. Cubism was the most influential art movement of...
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This poster markets "The Outwin: American Portraiture Today", an exhibition held by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art from October 5th, 2017 to January 7th, 2018. Every three years, The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery hosts The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, which calls on artists across the country t...
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This poster celebrates the 150th anniversary of the City Market in Kansas City, Missouri, in 2007. Historic photographs provided by the Missouri Valley Special Collections overlap one another in a muted primary color palette to create a visually alluring rustic collage. The City Market has evolved over the years but ha...
The American Library Association (ALA) started an "Read" poster initiative in 1985, featuring a celebrity posing with their favorite book or books. The celebrities were chosen because of their popularity, appeal, and visibility to a general audience, and the ALA worked to feature a range of diverse talent who would be...
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This poster markets "The Outwin: American Portraiture Today", an exhibition held by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art from October 5th, 2017 to January 7th, 2018. Every three years, The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery hosts The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, which calls on artists across the country t...
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This poster markets the painting featured in the exhibition "The Flowering of American Folk Art 1776-1876" held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1974. The original painting, titled "Noah's Ark" was created by American folk art painter Edward Hicks and belongs to the Philadelphia Museum of Art's permanent collec...
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This poster for the Toledo Museum of Art uses one of the museum collection's prized pieces, "Street in Tahiti" (1891) by French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin. The poster was likely created in correspondence to the exhibition "Impressionism: Selections from Five American Museums" contributed to by the Carnegie...
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This poster presents the United States Capitol Building dome at sunset bathing the building in warm light that causes it to glow. An architectural cutaway superimposes half of the original photograph of the building, revealing its interior design and structural elements. A third layer of the graphic lines a row of six...
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In 1984, Kansas City welcomed President Ronald Reagan and former Vice President Walter Mondale to the Municipal Auditorium for their second presidential debate. Taking center stage in this poster is a pair of boxing gloves draped over a microphone. The poster is comprised of a strong black and white palette with a hal...
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Kansas City Confidential tells the tale of Timothy Foster, a corrupt ex-policeman. In blackmailing three criminals to complete a robbery, he incidentally implicates a man unrelated to his scheme who gets mistaken for Foster by the authorities. The man, Joe Rolfe, eventually gets the charges against him dropped but goes...