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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.
