Brad Holland
Illustrator
Articles & interviews6
- PBR, Friday the 13th Launch 12-Pack Box Jason Mask
PRINT announces Brad Holland: Making It Personal, a memorial exhibition honoring the influential American illustrator following his death in March 2025. Co-curated by Holland's former assistant Jonathan Twingley and Norman Rockwell Museum Chief Curator Stephanie Plunkett, the show is presented at the School of Visual Arts' Gramercy Gallery in New York.
- Brad Holland’s Secret Passion: Poster Design
Steven Heller reflects on illustrator Brad Holland’s lesser-known passion for poster design, revealing a large body of work discovered after Holland’s death. The article discusses Holland’s approach to creating original posters, his typographic sensibility, and plans for a posthumous exhibition curated with the help of his former assistant, Jonathan Twingley.
- Steven Heller recalls art directing Evergreen Review in 1973
Steven Heller recalls becoming art director of Evergreen Review in 1973, a long-held dream that came through former art director Ken Deardorf. Working as the Grove Press publication was reduced to a paperback format and nearing its end, Heller produced two of its three paperback issues and one newsprint tabloid while commissioning illustrations and creating paste-ups.
- Brad Holland’s Lasting Influence on Illustration and Art Ethics
Steven Heller reflects on illustrator Brad Holland's formative influence on his career, emphasizing Holland's artistic independence and ethics around commercial art. Adapted from remarks at an SVA panel accompanying the posthumous exhibition Brad Holland: Making It Personal, the article traces Holland's early New York work across underground publications, Playboy, Time and The New York Times.
- Brad Holland’s First Posthumous Exhibit Opens With SVA Panel
PRINT reports on the first American posthumous exhibition of illustrator Brad Holland, opening at the School of Visual Arts for its fall 2026 semester. Curated by Jonathan Twingley from Holland’s uncatalogued storage collection, the exhibition presents framed paintings, drawings, sketches, posters and tear sheets, alongside a September 17 panel titled “Brad Holland: Making It Personal.”
- 1988 Election Evoked Civility, Trust in Media, and Political Normalcy
Steven Heller reflects on the 1988 United States presidential election as an era of comparatively civil political discourse and trusted mainstream journalism. He revisits a 1988 issue of The Washington Post Magazine, highlighting Brad Holland's political-circus cover illustration and Steve Brodner's caricatures of George H. W. Bush as examples of an appropriately oppositional editorial tone.