Seymour Chwast | About Seymour Chwast's Art
Known as a master of historical styles and movements, graphic designer, Seymour Chwast, is widely appreciated for his diverse body of work and lasting influence on American culture. Less known is his work not meant for the media. His paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture are an outlet for personal expression and a means of communicating his deep political and esthetic convictions.
Seymour Chwast, Bio, CV, Timeline, Exhibitions, Galleries, Museums, Resume, Artist, Paintings, Drawings, Pushpin, Illustrations
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About Seymour

Known as a master of historical styles and movements, graphic designer, Seymour Chwast, is widely appreciated for his diverse body of work and lasting influence on American culture. Less known is his work not meant for the media. His paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture are an outlet for personal expression and a means of communicating his deep political and esthetic convictions.

View Seymour’s other sites:

SeymourChwastArchive.com
Pushpininc.com

Biographical Notes

  • 1931 Born in New York City
  • 1948 Graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • 1951 Graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture
  • 1954 Co-founded Push Pin Studios
  • 1971 Elected to the Board of the American Institute of Graphic Arts
  • 1975 Appointed member of Alliance Graphique Internationale
  • 1975 Co-founded Push Pin Press
  • 1976 Editor and publisher of the Push Pin Graphic
  • 1983 Co-founded Push Pin Editions with Steven Heller
  • 1984 Inducted in the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame
  • 1985 Director of the Pushpin Group
  • 1990’s Created cut out sheet metal sculpture, exhibited widely
  • 1994 initiates series of illustrations for Frank Rich of the New York Times
  • 1996 Launched a periodical, The Nose, Steven Heller, editor
  • 1997 Master Series Award and exhibit, School of Visual Art
  • 2004 The Push Pin Graphic, a Quarter Century of Design and Illustration is published
  • 2016 At War With War is published; a paperback version appears the following year

CV

Selected Solo & Group Exhibitions
United States
  • Mead Library Gallery, New York
  • Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
  • University of Southern California, Fullerton, CA
  • Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
  • Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
  • Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
  • Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
  • Helander/Rubinstein Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
  • Schiller-Wapner Gallery, New York
  • Arthur A. Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York
  • Binghamton University Museum of Art, Binghamton, NY
  • Giraffics Gallery, East Hampton, NY

 

Europe, Japan and the Americas
  • Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Louvre, Paris, France
  • Holland Festival in Leidestraat, the Netherlands
  • Vienna America House, Vienna, Austria
  • Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Reed House, London, England
  • Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
  • Tokyu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
  • Galerie Delpire, Paris, France
  • Chelsea School of Art, Chelsea Gallery, London, England
  • Eighth International Bienale, Warsaw Poland
  • Kunstgewerbemuseum, Mainz Germany
  • Fachberleich, Gestaltung, Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Grmany
  • Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany
  • Volkstheater am Park, Wiesbaden, Germany
  • Galerie Pompidou, Paris,France
  • Poster Museum, Wilanow, Poland
  • Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
  • Kemistry Gallery, London, UK
  • Museeu de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Ginza Gallery, Tokyo, France
  • Jack Gallery, New York
  • Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Collections
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany
  • Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Library of Congress, Washington, D,C.
  • Cooper-Hewitt Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, New York
  • Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
  • San Fancisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
  • Poster House, New York
  • Washington University, St. Louis, MO
  • School of Visual Art
  • Bienal International del Cartel, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • The Cooper Union
Awards
  • Honorary Ph.D., Rhode Island School of Design, 2008
  • Honorary Ph.D., Parsons School of Design, 1992
  • Master Series Award, School of Visual Design, 1997
  • Medal, American Institute of American Art
  • Art Director’s Club Hall of Fame, 1983
  • Ladislav Sutnar Prize, 2017
  • Honorary Royal Designer for Industry, RSA, England 1992
  • Collab Design Excellence Award, Philadelphia Museum
  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award, The Cooper Union
Books
  • The Book of Battles, privately printed, 1967
  • Connoisseur Book of the Cigar, McGraw-Hill, 1967
  • Sara’s Granny and the Groodle, Doubleday, 1967
  • Still another Number Book, McGraw-Hill, 1970
  • The Pancake King, Delecorte, 1970

Reprinted, Princeton University Press, 2016

  • Mother Gooooose, Random House, 1971
  • Still another Children’s Book, McGraw-Hill, 1971
  • Limerickricks, Random House, !971
  • The Illustrated Cat, Harmony Books, 1975
  • Which On is Different?, Doubleday, 1975
  • The Sweetheart and Others, Avon, 1975
  • Sleepy Ida, Pantheon, 1977
  • The Literary Dog, Windhover, 1978
  • Zabar’s Deli Cookbook, Hawthorne Books, 1979
  • Tall City, Wide Country, Viking Press, 1983

Reprinted, Creative Editions, 2005

  • Art of New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1983
  • Art Against War, AbbevillePress,1984
  • Happy Birthday, Bach, Dolphin/Doubleday, 1984
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Gutenberg Book Guild
  • The Hat, Tideline Press, 2004
  • The Alphabet Parade, Harcourt Brace, 1991
  • 12 Circus Rings, Harcourt Press,1993
  • Had Gadya, Roaring Brook Press, 2005
  • Dante’s Divine Comedy, Bloomsbury, 2010
  • Canterbury Tales, 2011
  • Homer’s Odyssey, Bloomsbury 2012
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Bloomsbury
  • The Jickle and other Curious Pets, Page Press, 2018
  • Jackets Required, Chronicle, 1995
  • The Old Man and the Sea, Gutenberg Book Guild, 1893
  • Illustration, Abrams, 2008
  • At War With War, 7 Stories Press, 2016
  • Bobo’s Smile, Creative Editions, 2015
  • Get Dressed, Abrams, 2012
  • Sam’s Bar, Doubleday, 1987
  • Dr. Dolittle, Creative Editions, 2015
  • Seymour, The Obsessive Images of Seymour Chwast, Chronicle, 2009
  • Graphic Style, Abrams, 1980
  • The Art of Baseball, Harmony, 1990
  • The Push Pin Graphic, Chronicle, 2004