Exhibition poster: Dan Flavin: Pink and “Gold” (9 December [1967]-14 January [1968])

Large color illustrated poster (945 x 612 mm.). Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1967.


The very rare poster made for Flavin’s solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, it was the artist’s first solo museum show.


From the MCA Chicago website: “The MCA’s fourth exhibition, Dan Flavin: Pink and Gold, presented an expansive installation by Dan Flavin (1933-96), giving the groundbreaking artist his first solo museum exhibition and his very first showing in Chicago. In the installation, titled alternating pink and ‘gold,’ 54 eight-foot-tall florescent light tubes alternating in pink and yellow were installed (truncated) vertically across the six wall spaces of the museum at intervals of two, four, and six feet. As part of the exhibition, visitors were invited to feed pre-punched paper cards containing data through a rented IBM 1401 decimal computer (one of the first commercially affordable computers used by businesses from the 1950s–1970s) to print out personalized exhibition catalogues.”


Near fine; the faintest wear to the edges. The poster was designed by Sherman Mutchnick (1936-73). (Inventory #: 10938)