wave

1934

This is a black ink linoleum block print on tissue paper sealed in a paper mat. The composition shows four sailboats on the water, each on the crest of a large wave. A seabird is visible flying...

1930

This is a black ink linoleum print on tissue paper that is adhered to paper. The composition shows the silhouettes of three mermaids in profile above a wave. The figures appear in front of a...

early 20th century

This is a black ink linoleum print on tissue paper. The composition shows a female figure with shoulder-length hair dressed in a dark robe. The figure stands at center facing front while holding...

late 19th century to early 20th century

This is a black and white photonegative of a beach landscape. Waves crash around a cluster of boulders located just off shore at center in the image. A large rock face is just visible at far...

Are You Lost GW?
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster printed on white paper with a central dotted image of a large blue wave overtaking a red image of George Washington''s boat from the infamous painting of him on the Delaware. In the...

Untitled
1974

Poster has white unprinted edges enclosing a multicolor, stylized image of a white boat floating on blue and green swirling waves beneath a red, orange and pink sky with purple and pink clouds....

Untitled
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster background looks like stylized, light blue waves, with a ripple at the top. Spiraling around the ripple is the text "Don''t Worry, Be Wavy." repeated in different colors. At the top left...

The Kingdom of Heaven is Within You
1968

Poster has black ink printed on white paper with a stylized image of a cyclops in front of a bubbling, wavy ocean beneath a stormy sky. At the center is "The / Kingdom of Heaven / is / Within You...

The Seas Must Live
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a central grayscale image of a child standing on an ocean beach as waves roll in. Across the top is "The Seas Must Live" in black. Centered at the bottom is "Dolphin Project / Japan /...

International Women's Solidarity
1975

Poster has a color background image showing a yellow and orange sky with a white, foaming wave splashing up at the top left, with the blue ocean beneath it. In and among the waves are fanned out...

Let Us Be Clear
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a black and white background image showing an ocean beach with waves rolling in. At the top is "Let Us Be Clear" followed by five paragraphs of black text about the impending...

Let Us Be Clear
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a black and white background image showing an ocean beach with waves rolling in. At the top is "Let Us Be Clear" followed by five paragraphs of black text about the impending...

untitled (Asian text and the sunset)
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a central red image printed on white paper showing a sun shining over rolling waves with sunflowers in the foreground. Across the top of the poster, in the sky, are Asian symbols.

Nitrogen fixing trees
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has central color image of a tropical scene with trees and plants at the bottom and sides and people doing daily activities, like sewing and wearing leis, fishing with a spear, surfing and...

Vanishing Joy
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a central black and white image of two dolphins jumping out of the water with a wave splashing up at the right. At the bottom right of the poster is black text reading "vanishing joy...

100 Years
1985

Poster has white text imposed on a background of sepia images including a preamble, the faces of two men, a Sailors Union of the Pacific building, a SUP membership book, tools, and ships, enclosed...

MS 1
1969

One yellow-green poster with an image of a man standing in a wave with one arm reaching towards the sun and the other touching a fish. There is a different sea shell at each foot and a flower next...

Adopt A Beach
1989

Poster has a black and white border with drawings and images of sea life. The top edge of the poster has a green and red wavy banner and the text: "1989 / California Coastal Cleanup". The...

Protect Your Surfing Heritage
c. 1987

Background of poster is a black and white photograph if a breaking wave, with a large hillside in the background, overall. The top of the poster has text, in pink: "Protect Your Surfing Heritage...

The Third Wave of Feminism
1990

Poster printed in yellow and blue ink on cream paper. Text and images are printed on a slight angle across the page. "Radical Women's 23rd Anniversary Conference" printed at top left....

Probe: A private club
1984

One white poster with gray, red, and black print. At the top is "Probe" which is part of the gray rectangular border with red triangles. In the center is a ship inside a red heart. The text reads...

Wipe Out!
2007

Multi-color poster contains a collage of images including a wave from the woodblock print "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai, a car and a pair of binoculars falling from the tip of the wave...

untitled (women and child)
1982

Multi-color poster on white paper. Just above center, the poster shows people in brown silhouette sitting on yellow folding chairs in several horizontal rows. Above, a full color scene shows...

Asian American Youth Conference
1981

Poster shows a bird flying over waves with a full sun in the background. Extending across the top of the poster is yellow leaf border. At the top left is a poem "you are the music you are the song...

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