Seymour Chwast’s Dante’s Inferno “The End Place” Poster on Mad Men
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I was perusing Google Analytics, as one is wont to do on a Saturday morning, and realized that the Three Steps Ahead Etsy shop had a spike in traffic the other day thanks to a New York Times blog article about the popular television series Mad Men. A commenter had linked back to my shop because I had sold an original Seymour Chwast poster (of Pushpin Studios fame), entitled “Dante’s Inferno: The End Place.” The 1967 poster is an iconic latter-half-of-the-sixties design, depicting a smoking (and rather affectedly be-vested, be-caned, and be-monocled) version of the Great Satan Hisself. As it turns out, the poster was purchased by the producers of said TV show, and made its way onto the set in a conspicuous place. Thanks to Reddit user ExcellentPoint for the screen grab.
Nice work! You are talented.
Do you have a higher res scan of the poster? Would make a lovely background on the 27″ Monitor, but the Internet has only small versions…
Unfortunately I only have what I have posted here, sorry about that!
Wow! I would be thrilled to have sold that to them. I only just figured out what that poster was, having watched the scene several times trying to figure out what the poster said so I could look it up. I’m embarrassed to say I hadn’t known who Seymour Chwast was.