Sigmund Freud Had It
Artist
Seymour Chwast
United States, born 1931
Date1968
MediumLithograph
Dimensions35 x 25 in. (88.9 x 63.5 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.4317
DescriptionIn the 1960s and ’70s, Union Camp commissioned a number of illustrators—including a few Push Pin alumni—to create posters promoting its line of Williamsburg Offset paper. Each design featured a famous historical male figure deemed, like Union Camp’s paper, to have “had it.” Seymour Chwast produced at least two posters for the brand under art director Hal Josephs, this one showing Sigmund Freud surrounded by the sexual demons of his subconscious. Below, the tagline reads “Who could forget Freud (except maybe Jung)? If you want to be remembered try Union Camp’s Williamsburg Offset.”On View
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