Silence, Cunning, Exile
1994
Artist
Paula Scher
Client
The Public Theater
DIMENSIONS
46 x 30 in. (116.8 x 76.2 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.2025.496
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Paula Scher
KEYWORDS
Entertainment, Theater

This is another in the series of silkscreened posters Scher made for the 1994-95 season at the Public Theater. The lower register of the composition is dominated by an eerie photographic negative of a woman’s face, an image that effectively evokes the morbid theme of this play; it is based on the life of the great American photographer Diane Arbus, who committed suicide in 1971 at the age of 48.

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