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Edward Penfield
Harper's - May
1895
lithograph (poster for magazine)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Frank Hazenplug-
Galloping Dick
1896
lithograph (poster for novel)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Omer Parent
Have a Camel
1926
gouache on board (design for poster)
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Viktor Savchenko
Pravda
1964
offset-print (poster for newspaper)
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina

Burhan Dogançay
J. Payn Window
1966
mixed media on plexiglas
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Yoko Ono and John Lennon
War Is Over
ca. 1969
lithograph (poster)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Robert Frank
June Leaf, Iona, Nova Scotia
1980
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Braldt Bralds
Martin Luther
1983
oil on panel
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Kathe Burkhart
Prick: from the Liz Taylor Series (Suddenly Last Summer)
1987
acrylic paint and collage on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Christopher Wool
Untitled
1990
enamel on paper
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Reinier Lucassen
Untitled
1992
oil paint and marble dust on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Cornel Windlin
Birth of the Cool - Kunsthaus, Zürich
1997
lithograph (poster)
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

Barbara Kruger
Untitled
2011
inkjet print on vinyl
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Franck Gohier
Red Hand Prints
2013
screenprint (poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Mirko Borsche
Boris Godunow - Bayerische Staatsoper
2013
offset-print (poster)
Art Institute of Chicago

Tom Scicluna
Ordinance No. C-14-23
2014
neon signage
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Kristin Cochran
Fare Well
2020
neon signage
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas

from Juvenals tenth Satyre Translated

What then should man pray for? what is't that he

Can beg of Heaven, without Impiety?

Take my advice: first to the Gods commit

All cares; for they things competent, and fit

For us foresee; besides man is more deare

To them, than to himselfe: we blindly here

Led by the world, and lust, in vaine assay

To get us portions, wives, and sonnes; but they

Already know all that we can intend,

And of our Childrens Children see the end.

    Yet that thou may'st have something to commend

With thankes unto the Gods for what they send;

Pray for a wise, and knowing soule, a sad

Discreet, true valour, that will scorne to adde

A needlesse horrour to thy death; that knowes

'Tis but a debt which man to nature owes;

That starts not at misfortunes, that can sway,

And keeps all passions under locke and key;

That covets nothing, wrongs none, and preferres

An honest want before rich injurers;

All this thou hast within thy selfe, and may

Be made thy owne, if thou wilt take the way;

What boots the worlds wild, loose applause? what can

Fraile, perillous honours adde unto a man?

What length of years, wealth, or a rich faire wife?

Vertue alone can make a happy life.

– Juvenal (AD 50-127), translated by Henry Vaughan (1646)