Advertisements, Brochures, Annual Reports, Calendars (original art, sketches, printed samples and tear sheets). This series contains work primarily done for Push Pin Studios' publication, the Push Pin Graphic. Early work - Push Pin Studios (original art, sketches and tear sheets). This series contains sketches, original art and printed covers, including those for the Jorge Luis Borges series for E.P. Early work - Book Jackets - 1960s-1970s (original art, sketches and printed covers). This series contains printed examples and tear sheets for work done for corporate and non-profit clients, including nine brochures for Roche Laboratories pharmaceutical company. Early work - Advertisements, Corporate Brochures - 1960s-1970s (printed samples and tear sheets). This series contains tear sheets for illustrations done for many magazines, including Esquire, The Los Angeles Times West magazine and the New York Herald Tribune. Early work - Magazines - 1960s-1970s (tear sheets). This series includes art for an early book jacket for E.P Dutton, plus work for Fortune, McCall's, Steelways, Vogue and a Westinghouse Broadcasting Company advertising supplement to the New York Times containing art by many prominent illustrators. Early art for published work - 1960s-1970s (original art, sketches and tear sheets). Work from Art School and Early Portfolios (original art) The James McMullan Collection is divided into fifteen series: The Collection is composed of original art and sketches, plus print examples of posters, book jackets, album covers, and magazine illustrations. The James McMullan Collection documents McMullan's career as an illustrator and designer, from his student and early portfolio work in the 1950s to the present day. He began teaching at the School of Visual Arts in 1969 and in 1987 he inaugurated his High-Focus Drawing Program at SVA, which later resulted in a book on his distinctive approach to life drawing. McMullan has also collaborated on six children’s books with his wife, children’s book author Kate McMullan. McMullan designed his first Broadway poster in 1976, which led to a long relationship with Lincoln Center and his creation of many posters for the theater. He departed Push Pin in 1969 just as Milton Glaser and Clay Felker were starting New York Magazine and he was a member of the core group of artists who helped establish that magazine’s graphic style.

He joined Push Pin Studios in 1966, where he sharpened his psychologically intense style of realism. McMullan was born in 1934 in Tsingtao, China and studied art at the Pratt Institute in New York City. He is best known for his acclaimed theater posters for Lincoln Center, and has also designed and illustrated many book jackets, album covers, and magazine articles. James McMullan is one of America’s most important illustrators.

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