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Whitney Museum 1970 (Six Hearts 1970)

Jim Dine

Petersburg Press United States

Artwork details

Artist

Jim Dine

Title

Whitney Museum 1970 (Six Hearts 1970)

Description

Original poster produced for Jim Dine's 1970 exhibition at the Whitney
Museum of American Art. This poster, printed on fine, thick paper, features
imagery from Six Hearts, 1970, a color offset lithograph with collage, spray-
paint and hand coloring. From the retro, rounded 1970s typeface to the
jubilant sprays of paint around Dine’s trademark hearts, this work is one of
the highlights of Petersburg Press’ vintage poster archives.

Jim Dine spoke in an interview about why he returns to the heart motif again
and again: "I have no idea but it’s mine and I use it as a template for all my
emotions. It’s a landscape for everything. It’s like Indian classical music –
based on something very simple but building to a complicated structure.
Within that you can do anything in the world. And that’s how I feel about my
hearts.”

Text reads: Whitney Museum of American Art, Madison Avenue at 75th
Street, February 27-April 19, 1970.

Date

1970

Medium

Colour Lithograph

Edition

Unknown

Signature

Unsigned

Sheet

30 x 22 inches

Status

Available

Price

$600.00

The Artist

Jim Dine

Jim Dine: Printmaker, Painter and Poet of the Everyday Object

Jim Dine (born 1935, Cincinnati, Ohio) is one of the most prolific and technically adventurous printmakers of the past sixty years. He first emerged in New York’s late-1950s art scene alongside the Happenings and Pop art movements, but he has always resisted the Pop label. His work is intensely personal, autobiographical and hand-made. Jim Dine prints put that sensibility on paper: expressive, gestural and rooted in the physical act of drawing and cutting.