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The Museum at Bethel Woods, located at the site of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair, is proud to announce the availability of Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters, a traveling exhibition that unites David Edward Byrd and Arnold Skolnick, creators of the famous and not-so famous posters that helped make Woodstock a universal name.

The exhibition will run at The Museum at Bethel Woods April 1-July 22, 2012, and will be available to travel through 2014. For more information, please e-mail [log in to unmask] .

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BYRD/SKOLNICK: A Tale of Two Posters
A retrospective exhibition of the work of David Edward Byrd and Arnold Skolnick. The iconic images of these two important artists are brought together for the first time, along with many of the artworks inspired by their posters for the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair.

As the Woodstock Music and Art Fair established itself as the watershed moment for the generation of the 1960s, Arnold Skolnick’s “dove and guitar” design for the festival poster and logo became an icon—one that is still highly recognizable today. Skolnick’s simple design stood in stark contrast to the original design for the festival poster, designed by Fillmore East house artist David Edward Byrd, whose ornate, foliated design featured a full-frontal nude depiction of a woman pouring water from an urn. Byrd’s design for “An Aquarian Exposition” was not widely distributed and was, therefore, not well known, overshadowed by Skolnick’s iconic design. 

Four decades after Woodstock, The Museum at Bethel Woods’ new exhibition examines the work of David Edward Byrd and Arnold Skolnick—including both artists’ work from 1969—along with an amazing collection of graphic art inspired by or satirizing their famous Woodstock posters. 

In addition to their Woodstock posters, the exhibition includes a retrospective of approximately 100 examples of the broad range of Byrd’s and Skolnick’s artwork—rock posters and posters for Broadway shows, TV, and movies, impressionistic oil paintings drawn from nature, books about art, and sensitive photographs of erotic nudes. The exhibition also features approximately 50 pieces that represent the myriad posters and artwork inspired by Skolnick’s iconic “dove and guitar” or Byrd’s “Aquarian Exposition” over the past 42 years. Some are humorous; some are outrageous; all are fascinating.

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Wade Lawrence | Museum Director, The Museum at Bethel Woods

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
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