Subway poster for School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson

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This is a subway poster for the School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson and illustrated by Terry Allen, featuring a quote from President Barack Obama and an illustration of an abstract figure painting two red flowers. The poster has a blue background that fades to black towards the top margin. There is a red flower painted in each upper corner of the poster. At the bottom center of the poster is a square of horizontal red and white stripes. An ‘arm’ branches off the top right-hand side of the square then bend in a ninety-degree angle to point straight up. The ‘arm’ is checked red and white and ends in an orange dot. The orange dot appears to hold the long black handle of a paintbrush that reaches up the right side of the poster and appears to be painting the red flower in the upper right corner.

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