November 18, 2021

COLLECT VINTAGE ART EPHEMERA
Great Cards Great Artists

Collecting vintage art ephemera is a way to own a piece of art history. A top tier announcement card – with an image, the name of the artist, the gallery, and the exhibition date – is more than memorabilia. Carefully curated collections of art ephemera allow art enthusiasts to trace the career of a favorite artist’s career and more fully understand the creative environment in which the artist worked.

Founded in 2014, Gallery 98’s website now features over 5,000 cards, posters and catalogues, mostly from the years 1964 to 2001. It is a site for both collectors and scholars. In addition to selling ephemera, we provide images for publication, and lend ephemera to museums. Our inventory is constantly growing. Visit our New Additions page for our best new arrivals.

Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman, Shadow Puppet Spinning Head, Hauser & Wirth Gallery (Switzerland), Folded Card, 1997. Size: 6 x 8.25 Inches.

Bruce Nauman, Konrad Fischer Gallery (Germany), Card, 1978. Size: 5.75 x 4 Inches.

Hanne Darboven

Hanne Darboven, Primitive Time / Clock Time, Leo Castelli Gallery, Folded Card, 1991. Size: 7 x 9 Inches

Hanne Darboven, South Korea Calendar 1991, Leo Castelli Gallery, Folded Card, 1995. Size: 10 x 6.75 Inches

David Salle

David Salle, (Photo by Robert Cumming), Mary Boone Gallery, Folded Card, 1981. Size: 5 x 7 Inches

David Salle, Mary Boone Gallery, Folded Card, 1994. Size: 7 x 7 Inches

Judy Chicago

Judy Chicago, Re:Vision: Art on an Intimate Scale, 3122 Santa Monica Boulevard (Los Angeles), Folded Card, 1975. Size: 7 x 11 inches

Judy Chicago, History in the Making: Preparatory Materials For The Dinner Party, LewAllen Contemporary, Card, 2007. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Inches

Bruce Nauman David Salle Hanne Darboven Judy Chicago

December 2, 2021
HISTORY OF A PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY Cards From Light Gallery, 1971 – 1987

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Gallery 98’s rich inventory of announcement cards from Light, the pioneering photography gallery, are now featured in a new online exhibition Light Gallery & Fine Arts Photography, 1971 – 1987. Over its seventeen-year history, Light helped define the genre of art photography and launched many of its leading practitioners.
November 4, 2021
RARE EPHEMERA BACK IN STOCK Basquiat, DeSana, Futura, Hambleton, Lady Pink, Sprouse

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It’s not easy for Gallery 98 to keep vintage art ephemera in stock. The best items sell quickly, and it’s becoming harder to find great new ones to replace what has sold. Fortunately, there are art lovers like Bodi Lucas, who back in the 1980s amassed a large collection of gallery cards and publications…
October 28, 2021
THE RISE OF NEO-EXPRESSIONISM, 1970s – 90s

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The revival of painting that took place in the 1980s moved in many directions but the term that most appropriately defined and marketed this change was Neo-Expressionism. In New York, the Mary Boone Gallery was the headquarters for the movement, especially after she teamed up with Michael Werner whose Cologne gallery…
October 21, 2021
THE THEORETICAL GIRLS Women Artists of The Pictures Generation

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The 1988 announcement card (above) from a Metro Pictures exhibition featuring eleven successful women artists illustrates the gender diversification that was slowly taking hold in the art world in the 1980s.
October 14, 2021
GRAFFITI, POST-GRAFFITI, MODERN EXPRESSIONISTS Four Catalogues from the Sidney Janis Gallery, 1983 – 1985

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It was big news back in December 1983 when the venerable Sidney Janis Gallery mounted the exhibition Post-Graffiti featuring canvases by top urban street artists. The embrace of graffiti culture was an unexpected and surprising turn for a gallery first established in 1948 and famous in the artworld for its exhibitions of…
October 7, 2021
WRAPPING BUILDINGS AS ART The Audacious Art of Christo & Jean-Claude

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Over the years Christo and Jean-Claude’s wrappings have frequently been at a colossal scale and involved prominent public structures. These projects are by necessity short term (usually two weeks) but they live on through copious documentation created by the artists themselves.
September 30, 2021
A NEGLECTED ART MOVEMENT Pattern and Decoration: Cards and Catalogues, 1970s-90s

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The 1970s was a particularly fertile moment for new art movements. With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972 – 1985, an exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College (through November 28th), spotlights one of the most distinctive — the Pattern and Decoration movement (also known as P&D).
September 22, 2021
A FORGOTTEN ART MOVEMENT Photorealism: Cards and Catalogues, 1970s–90s

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The success of Pop Art in the 1960s opened the way for other new styles of representational art. “Photorealism” was a term applied to a group of artists whose fastidious paintings strove to imitate photography. Like pop artists, photorealists favored imagery drawn from everyday life and the American vernacular. OK Harris Gallery and the …
September 16, 2021
FOLLOW GALLERY 98 ON INSTAGRAM New Vintage Art Ephemera Posted Daily

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Depending on your age, collecting vintage art ephemera is either nostalgic or educational. Since Gallery 98’s founding over five years ago, we have amassed a huge collection of art gallery cards and posters covering the years 1964 to 2001. Although our specialty is the art of downtown New York,…
September 8, 2021
EUROPEAN ART EPHEMERA, 1970s – 1990s Christo, Koons, Abramović, Sherman, Currin

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When a collection of art ephemera only includes items from American galleries it inevitably does not convey the full picture. During the final decades of the 20th century Europe was not only the birthplace of important artists (e.g., Christo, Marina Abramović, Anselm Kiefer) but it was also a key market for American artists. Gallery 98’s goal is to capture…
September 2, 2021
JENNY HOLZER, JEFF KOONS, RICHARD PRINCE German Magazine Gives Artists Editorial Control, 1990s

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Selected issues of the German Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) magazine from the 1990s are today coveted collector items because of the publication’s radical decision to give famous artists editorial control in the design of the magazine’s cover, as well as lengthy picture spreads featuring whatever images they chose.
August 26, 2021
CHUCK CLOSE (1940 – 2021) An Artist’s Ephemera Lives On

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Last week the art world was fixated on the death of Chuck Close, a pioneer photorealist painter who was also connected with conceptual and post-minimal art. As one of the most celebrated artists from the 1970’s, Close’s personal story also fueled media interest.

COLLECT VINTAGE ART EPHEMERA Great Cards Great Artists

Bruce Nauman

Hanne Darboven

David Salle

Judy Chicago

December 2, 2021HISTORY OF A PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY Cards From Light Gallery, 1971 – 1987

November 4, 2021RARE EPHEMERA BACK IN STOCK Basquiat, DeSana, Futura, Hambleton, Lady Pink, Sprouse

October 28, 2021THE RISE OF NEO-EXPRESSIONISM, 1970s – 90s

October 21, 2021THE THEORETICAL GIRLS Women Artists of The Pictures Generation

October 14, 2021GRAFFITI, POST-GRAFFITI, MODERN EXPRESSIONISTS Four Catalogues from the Sidney Janis Gallery, 1983 – 1985

October 7, 2021WRAPPING BUILDINGS AS ART The Audacious Art of Christo & Jean-Claude

September 30, 2021A NEGLECTED ART MOVEMENT Pattern and Decoration: Cards and Catalogues, 1970s-90s

September 22, 2021A FORGOTTEN ART MOVEMENT Photorealism: Cards and Catalogues, 1970s–90s

September 16, 2021FOLLOW GALLERY 98 ON INSTAGRAM New Vintage Art Ephemera Posted Daily

September 8, 2021EUROPEAN ART EPHEMERA, 1970s – 1990s Christo, Koons, Abramović, Sherman, Currin

September 2, 2021JENNY HOLZER, JEFF KOONS, RICHARD PRINCE German Magazine Gives Artists Editorial Control, 1990s

August 26, 2021CHUCK CLOSE (1940 – 2021) An Artist’s Ephemera Lives On

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COLLECT VINTAGE ART EPHEMERA
Great Cards Great Artists

December 2, 2021
HISTORY OF A PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY Cards From Light Gallery, 1971 – 1987

November 4, 2021
RARE EPHEMERA BACK IN STOCK Basquiat, DeSana, Futura, Hambleton, Lady Pink, Sprouse

October 28, 2021
THE RISE OF NEO-EXPRESSIONISM, 1970s – 90s

October 21, 2021
THE THEORETICAL GIRLS Women Artists of The Pictures Generation

October 14, 2021
GRAFFITI, POST-GRAFFITI, MODERN EXPRESSIONISTS Four Catalogues from the Sidney Janis Gallery, 1983 – 1985

October 7, 2021
WRAPPING BUILDINGS AS ART The Audacious Art of Christo & Jean-Claude

September 30, 2021
A NEGLECTED ART MOVEMENT Pattern and Decoration: Cards and Catalogues, 1970s-90s

September 22, 2021
A FORGOTTEN ART MOVEMENT Photorealism: Cards and Catalogues, 1970s–90s

September 16, 2021
FOLLOW GALLERY 98 ON INSTAGRAM New Vintage Art Ephemera Posted Daily

September 8, 2021
EUROPEAN ART EPHEMERA, 1970s – 1990s Christo, Koons, Abramović, Sherman, Currin

September 2, 2021
JENNY HOLZER, JEFF KOONS, RICHARD PRINCE German Magazine Gives Artists Editorial Control, 1990s

August 26, 2021
CHUCK CLOSE (1940 – 2021) An Artist’s Ephemera Lives On