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Paula Scher is an American artist known for her work in graphic design, painting, as well as her work in art education. Paula Scher’s most known work revolves around large-scale maps with intricate letters. Browse a selection of Paula Scher artwork on 1stDibs.
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China (gorgeous silkscreen on lanaquarelle from renowned artist's map series)
By Paula Scher
Located in New York, NY
Paula Scher
China, 2013
Hand pulled silkscreen on deluxe Lanaquarelle paper
24 3/5 × 28 1/5 inches
Edition of 95
Pencil signed and numbered on the front
Unframed
Paula Scher Biography
Renowned graphic designer and artist Paula Scher's silkscreen China, from her map series, represents a subjective take on the country’s superpower status. Through the visual vibrancy of information overload in the print, Scher captures the swift transformations taking place in a country steeped with a rich cultural and historical fabric. The multi-directional, scrawled names of sites and statistics speaks to China’s complicated history, from its imperial age of dynasties and warlord conquests, to the violent tumult of its communist conversion.
Paula Scher is one of the most influential graphic designers in the world. Described as the “master conjurer of the instantly familiar,” Scher straddles the line between pop culture and fine art in her work. Iconic, smart, and accessible, her images have entered into the American vernacular.
Scher has been a partner in the New York office of Pentagram since 1991. She began her career as an art director in the 1970s and early 80s, when her eclectic approach to typography became highly influential. In the mid-1990s her landmark identity for The Public Theater...
Category
2010s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen, Graphite
U.S.A. Airline Routes
By Paula Scher
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Paula Scher
Title: U.S.A. Airline Routes
Year: 2020
Medium: Digital pigment print in colors on wove paper
Sheet: 43 3/4 × 60 in (111.1 × 152.4 cm)
Edition: 90; signed, number...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Winter, Pop Art Screenprint by Paula Scher
By Paula Scher
Located in Long Island City, NY
From the portfolio "The Four Seasons" depicted the four seasons with text and flowers, this print by Pop artist Paula Scher uses a simple, collage-like style to create its compositio...
Category
1980s More Prints
Materials
Screen
Summer, Pop Art Screenprint by Paula Scher
By Paula Scher
Located in Long Island City, NY
A close-up image of a flower, maybe a lily or a hibiscus, in simplified colors. Across the top of the image, the word Summer is spelled out in red and the figure of a woman in a red ...
Category
1980s More Prints
Materials
Screen
Summer
By Paula Scher
Located in New York, NY
Paula Scher
Summer, ca. 1987
Silkscreen in Colors on Rives BFK Paper.
36 × 29 3/5 inches
Edition 81/190
Signed in graphite lower right margin front; numbered in graphite lower left m...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
World Trade Routes - Paula Scher, Maps, Screenprint, Contemporary Art
By Paula Scher
Located in London, GB
Signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 150.
Printed by Alexander Heinrici, New York.
Published by ARTContent Editions Limited, Vancouver.
Category
2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen