Saul Bass — Vertigo (1958) | Hitchcock Vintage Movie Poster Print

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Saul Bass — Vertigo (1958) | Hitchcock Vintage Movie Poster PrintSaul Bass (19201996) created the most iconic title sequences and posters in Hollywood history. His Vertigo (1958) poster a spiralling vortex of red and black containing two falling figures reduces Hitchcock's complex psychological thriller to a single image of vertiginous dread. It is widely taught in design schools as a perfect example of conceptual graphic reduction, and remains one of the most sought after posters in cinema history. Printed on

simplicity

allegorical works in which the human cost of the 20th century's first catastrophe is rendered with the full symbolic weight of the Symbolist and Expressionist traditions he inherited

he believed art and technology were inseparable

women folding letters

his portraits — bathing women

he produced over 600 prints across a career of extraordinary consistency and beauty

His Hlava Muža (Head of a Man) print

with their warm palette and intimate domestic scale

and impermanence into a single composed image

William Stanley Haseltine (1835–1900) was an American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School and the Luminist tradition

A friend of Renoir

His graphic facility and eye for pattern make his decorative drawings among the most distinctive works of late-18th-century Dutch draughtsmanship

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