Exhibition posters are a great way to collect a piece of art history, from vintage prints advertising the first Impressionist salons to more recent posters celebrating Kerry James Marshall’s first museum retrospective. Many artists—including Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, and Keith Haring—are famous for designing their own exhibition posters, viewing these prints as an extension of shows at galleries and museums. When first released, these prints are often low in cost (or free entirely), but they can rise in value when the featured artist grows in popularity. For example, Lichtenstein’s exhibition poster Shipboard Girl (1965), which might have sold for $5 or $10 at his opening show at Leo Castelli Gallery, has since reached over $50,000 at auction.

Long before face masks were in vogue and de rigeur, there was Jonas Wood's "Face Painting". In the Spring of 2019, Jonas Wood hand signed a limited number of these posters for the Dallas Museum on the occasion of his major mid-career retrospective at the museum. The museum sold out of the signed posters almost immediately. They were so bombarded with requests from around the world, that they had to post a banner announcing that they had no signed books or posters available anymore. Signed and dated 2019 with the artist's signature basketball flourish.
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Dallas Museum of Art