274 // MSN1 / Health for Sale
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Health for Sale: Posters from the William H. Helfand Collection
April 2 – July 31, 2011
Curated by Innis Howe Shoemaker, John Ittmann
History of Advertising Explored through Medical Posters 1846 to Present
In the mid 1950s, William H. Helfand began to collect prints with medical subjects, gradually moving his focus from fine to popular art. Over four decades, he has donated more than one thousand posters, prints, and ephemera to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exhibition presents some fifty of the nearly two hundred posters in this collection.
From the press release:
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