There is one other image of this object. See our image rights statement.
See more objects with the color indianred dimgrey darksalmon tan or see all the colors for this object.
Object Timeline
|
1983 |
|
|
1993 |
|
|
2014 |
|
|
2015 |
|
|
2024 |
|
Poster, Two-Headed Monster Destroys Community
This is a Poster. It was designed by Anton van Dalen and printed by Lower East Side Print Shop, Inc.. It is dated 1983 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is screenprint on white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Stencil letters in all caps, together with alarming imagery, broadcast the urgency of the message.
This object was
donated by
Karrie Jacobs and Steven Heller.
It is credited Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs.
- Poster, Crack House White House
- spray paint on tracing paper.
- Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs.
- 1993-53-83
- Poster, Skull and Olive Branch
- lithograph on heavy white wove paper.
- Gift of Tamar Cohen.
- 1999-6-2
- Poster, Jim Hendrix Experience, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, and Albert...
- offset lithograph on white wove paper.
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer.
- 1979-34-8
Our curators have highlighted 5 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Poster, Unter Mexikos Sonne (¡Que viva Mexico!)
- screenprint on wove paper.
- Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
- 2010-21-73
![Poster, Zagadka niesmiertelnosci [The Hunger]](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/46888_6800ec69a01fd82f_n.jpg "Poster, Zagadka niesmiertelnosci [The Hunger]")
- Poster, Zagadka niesmiertelnosci [The Hunger]
- offset lithograph.
- Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
- 2010-21-19
![Poster, Ptaki [The Birds]](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/36989_9f4e232afd88a7f5_n.jpg "Poster, Ptaki [The Birds]")
- Poster, Ptaki [The Birds]
- offset lithograph on wove paper, mounted on canvas.
- Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
- 2010-21-7
Its dimensions are
H x W: 61.1 × 48.4 cm (24 1/16 × 19 1/16 in.)
It is inscribed
Imprinted in black ink at LR: "Printed at the Lower East Side Printshop"
Cite this object as
Poster, Two-Headed Monster Destroys Community; Designed by Anton van Dalen (Dutch and American, b. 1938); Printed by Lower East Side Print Shop, Inc.; USA; screenprint on white paper; H x W: 61.1 × 48.4 cm (24 1/16 × 19 1/16 in.); Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs; 1993-53-117
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition How Posters Work.
