Paula Scher

Paula Scher
One on One - Bob James, Earl Klugh
1979
offset-lithograph (record sleeve)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
Manhattan Records
ca. 1985
offset-lithograph (sample record labels)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
Manhattan Records
ca. 1987
offset-lithograph (record label)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
The big A
1991
screenprint
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
The Public Theater - New York
1994
offset-lithograph (flyer)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
Simpatico - The Public Theater - New York
1994
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
Him - The Public Theater - New York
1994
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park
1994
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
The Public Theater - New York
1996
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
The Best of Tappan Zee
ca. 1997
offset-lithograph (record sleeve)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
Space - The Public Theater - New York
1999
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
Ballet Tech - The Joyce Theater - New York
1999
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
Book of the Dead (Second Avenue)
The Public Theater - New York
2000
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
Shakespeare in the Park - The Public Theater - New York
2007
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
Public - San Francisco
2012
offset-lithograph
(advertising poster for brand of bicycles)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
Sundance Film Festival
2013
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paula Scher
You, Me - for Poster House, New York
2020
digital poster
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

from The Consolation of Philosophy

    Alas! what laws can Lovers awe?

Love is it self the greatest Law!

Or who can such hard bondage brook

To be in Love, and not to Look?

Poor Orpheus almost in the light

Lost his dear Love for one short sight;

And by those eyes, which Love did guide,

What he most lov'd unkindly dyed!

    This tale of Orpheus and his Love

Was meant for you, who ever move

Upwards, and tend into that light,

Which is not seen by mortal sight.

For if, while you strive to ascend,

You droop, and towards Earth once bend

Your seduc'd Eyes, down you will fall

Ev'n while you look, and forfeit all.

– Boethius (AD 476-524), translated by Henry Vaughan (1678)