Cuban Graphic Design | Collection Highlights | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A piece of film and several sheets of off-white paper are held together with a paper clip, on black ground. Below the paper clip, in black small caps, center: semana/ de cine/ documental/ y de cortometraje/ mexicano/ 11 al 17/ octubre de 1976. (Film Documentary Week and Mexican Short Films October 11 to 17, 1976).

Poster, Semana de cine documental y de cortometraje mexicano (Week of Mexican...
screenprint on wove paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1994-65-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Candelabrum, seemingly cut out of black ground, sitting on a support, holding five candles which are dripping with red blood. Food or flower arrangement at lower right. Upper center in white: "FILM CUBANO EN COLORES DIRRECION: TOMAS GUTIERREZ ALEA CON: NELSON VILLAGRA / LA ULTIMA CENA" (The Last Supper).

Poster, La última cena (The Last Supper), 1977
screenprint on wove paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1994-65-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

On a yellow ground, black text in upper margin: "film bulgaro en colores y cinemascope dirección: borislav sharaliev con: kosta tsonev maya / dragomanska yavo milushev / el reo / necesario." At center, blue chair with green and purple highlights atop a cube.

Poster, El reo necesario (The Necessary Offender), 1973
screenprint on wove paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1994-65-3

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

On black ground an abstracted human skull cut out of an American flag. Five gold stars forming a chain fall from lower left corner of skull. Title in white runs across the top, in white: NO HAY REGRESO PARA JOHNNY / FILM POLACO / DIRECCION: KAVEH PUR RAHNAMA / CON: JACEK RECKNITZ / NGUYEN VAN QUYNH / VUONG VAN CAT.

Poster, No hay regreso para Johnny (There is No Return for Johnny), 1971
screenprint on wove paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1994-65-4

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

A two-toned green cactus tears a piece out of an American flag that hangs diagonally from upper left corner. Title, in white, runs along loweredge of flag, diagonally towards upper right corner: RETROSPECTIVA / DE LA / CINEMATOGRAFIA / CHICANA / PRIMER FESTIVAL / INTERNACIONAL / DEL NUEVO CINE / LATINOAMERICANO.

Poster, Retrospectiva de la Cinematografia (Cinematography Retrospective), 1979
silkscreen on wove paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1994-65-5

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

At upper right, head of Fidel Castro facing right, number 26 and star at upper left in asymmetrical field; "FIDEL" and smaller star in elliptical field below. In psychedelic colors of pink, orange, green, yellow and blue.

Poster, Fidel, 1968
screenprint on wove paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1994-65-6

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Five men draped in Cuban flags are presented from lower left foreground and continue into the distance at the lower right. Each holds a flag created by a piece of red, white or blue film. Figures are set against a green ground. Title in black at upper left: SEMANA DE / CINE CUBANO / EN BOLIVIA. (Cuban Cinema Week in Bolivia)

Poster, Semana de Cine Cubano en Bolivia (Cuban Cinema Week in Bolivia), 1985
screenprint on wove paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1994-65-7

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

On a black printed background, a slightly off-centered white line running vertically terminates in an orange "S"-shaped curve that is forked at the lower edge. In white: LA LINEA / DELGADA / film japonés dirección: mikio naruse con: keiji kobayashi tatsuya mihashi michiyo aratama.

Poster, La linea delgada (The Thin Line), 1969
screenprint on wove paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1994-65-8

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

On opened page of student examination book, title of poster in black ink appears in script three times with proofreading in red: Que dice usted? (What do you say?) Subtitle in white along lower edge of image against brown ground. Below in white: DOCUMENTAL CUBANO EN COLORES/DIRECCION: LUIS FELIPE BERNAZA. (Cuban Documentary in Color/ Director: Luis Felipe Bernaza)

Poster, ¿Qué dice usted? (What Do You Say?), 1978
screenprint on wove paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1994-65-9

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

The Cuban flag in red, white and blue is repeated 8 times with the triangular parts meeting in the middle to form the lens of a camera. Title in black ink in Cyrillic at upper right.

Poster, Russian Film, 1973
silkscreen on wove paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1994-65-10

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Puerto Rican Flag cut into four quadrants that are spaced equidistant apart and set against a black background. Title in white runs along lower edge.

Poster, Puerto Rico, 1975
silkscreen on wove paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1994-65-11

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

On a black ground a soldier in a Nazi uniform. His face is surrounded by a yellow halo and covered by Benday dots. On his left shoulder sits a young girl in a blue dress with orange hair holding a rifle which is directed at his neck. Title runs across top: EL SALVADOR / film francés direccion: michel mardore/con: horst bucholz/muriel catala

Poster, El Salvador, 1973
silkscreen on wove paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1994-65-12

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

On a blue background, a green, orange, blue and white rocket blasts upward from a large cuped red and blue hand, leaving clouds of yellow and orange smoke. Text in white, upper left: "el dominio del fuego, film soviético en colores y cinemascope, dir: daniil jrabrowitski/con: kirill lavrov [the domain of fire, soviet film in color and cinemascope, direction:daniil jrabowitski/with kirill lavrov]; signed and dated on plate lower left corner: "luis vega 72".

Poster, El Dominio del Fuego (The Taming of Fire), 1972
screenprint on wove paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1994-65-13

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Poster, Day of the Heroic Guerrilla, 1980
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Milton Brown.
1989-107-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Poster, World Solidarity With Cuba, 1980
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Milton Brown.
1989-107-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Poster, World Solidarity with Puerto Rico, 1981
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Milton Brown.
1989-107-5

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.