Illustrator
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.
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.
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.”
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.