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Jules Chéret
Les Frères Léopold
L'Horloge Champs-Élysées
ca. 1890
chromolithograph (poster)
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

Gertrud Caspari
Renner
ca. 1905
lithograph
(poster advertising a department store)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Hans Lindenstaedt
Thomann Schnellhefter
c1905
lithograph
(poster advertising a brand of binders)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Curt Behrends
Schlieben
ca. 1910
lithograph
(poster advertising a beverage)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Oskar Petersen
Schwitze
c1914
lithograph-
(poster advertising a Munich bath house)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Julius Klinger
Thespia: Die Cigarettes des Tages
ca. 1918
lithograph
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Charles Demuth
Buildings, Lancaster
1930
oil on board
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Ralph Moses
Birds of a Feather flock Together
(Accidents - Carelessness)
ca. 1930
lithograph
(poster blaming workers for their own injuries)
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

Antonio Frasconi
Exhibition Poster
1953
offset-print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Tom Cervenak
The End of Western Civilization - San Francisco
ca. 1966
lithograph( poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Stanley Mouse
Jefferson Airplane
at the Fillmore, San Francisco
1966
lithograph
(poster for Homecoming Dance, SF State College)
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Clifford Charles Seeley
Middle Earth -
Haight & Ashbury, San Francisco
1967
lithograph
(poster advertising a head shop)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Roger Huyssen
Astounding Pants - Oshkosh B'gosh
ca. 1980
lithograph (poster)
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

Francesco Clemente
Exhibition Poster
1983
lithograph
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Barbara Kruger
Love for Sale
1990
offset-print (book cover)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

John Waters
Visit Marfa
2003
lithograph (poster)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Art Hazelwood
Impeach the Beast
2007
screenprint (poster)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

from The Vanity of Human Wishes

    Where then shall Hope and Fear their Objects find?

Must dull Suspence corrupt the stagnant Mind?

Must helpless Man, in Ignorance sedate,

Swim darkling down the Current of his Fate?

Must no Dislike alarm, no Wishes rise,

No Cries attempt the Mercies of the Skies?

Enquirer, cease, Petitions yet remain,

Which Heav'n may hear, nor deem Religion vain.

Still raise for Good the supplicating Voice,

But leave to Heav'n the Measure and the Choice.

Safe in his Pow'r, whose Eyes discern afar

The secret Ambush of a specious Pray'r. 

Implore his Aid, in his Decisions rest,

Secure whate'er he gives, he gives the best.

Yet with the Sense of sacred Presence prest,

When strong Devotion fills thy glowing Breast,

Pour forth thy Fervours for a healthful Mind,

Obedient Passions, and a Will resign'd;

For Love, which scarce collective Man can fill;

For Patience sov'reign o'er transmuted Ill;

For Faith, that panting for a happier Seat,

Thinks Death kind Nature's Signal of Retreat:

These Goods for Man the Laws of Heav'n ordain,

These Goods he grants, who grants the Pow'r to gain;

With these celestial Wisdom calms the Mind,

And makes the Happiness she does not find.

 – Juvenal (AD 50-127), as adapted and translated by Samuel Johnson (1749)