Posters in Museum Collections?

[liesl]

Hi all, I'm hoping maybe some people on this forum can help answer a question: I'm a graduate student currently researching rock posters (all eras), and I'm trying to track down just what museums and institutions have these posters as part of their acquisitioned collections.
I'm aware of Denver Art Museum's group of ~900 psychedelic rock posters, as well as some similar, smaller collections in my area, but unfortunately much of this information has been coming to me via word of mouth, so I know I'm missing a lot of collections out there...
I figured this would be a great forum to ask: Have any of you encountered other collections in the United States (or beyond)? Do any artists here have their posters in institutional collections, including libraries, smaller community museums, etc.? Any information at all would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you all so much,
Liesl Christman - Graduate Fellow, Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation

liesl (at) udel (dot) edu

[Charles T. Duck]

Cooper Hewitt NYC.

[j. walsh]

sf moma

[art chantry]

rock and roll hall of fame has a nice collection. so the the emp (experience music project) in seattle. i don't know if the hard rock collections are available for study, but you might check on that, too.

[ryan_1969]

rick griffin

Laguna Art Museum - Limited Edition official Heart & Torch: Rick Griffin's Transcendence Poster

edit: nevermind, it was only an exhibition.

[mkgaughan]

University of Rhode Island has an awesome collection from the Warwick Musical Tent, which was a B or C level stop. The cool thing is that one family ran it from 1930 through 1991 and they saved everything. Last year the family gave everything, posters, shirts, photos, etc, to URI who is now cataloging it all.

This is the only collection I've found in RI, no other institution has much of anything. Some places ask me to help them figure out who played at their venue, they have no institutional memory.

[poguemahone]

South Austin Museum of Popular Culture, Austin, TX 78704

[squeegeethree]

Moma here has some in the design section.

[art chantry]

moma periodically sells of it's "lesser" work to raise money. they sell of most of their non-"fine artist" posters. if the name on it isn't picasso or toulouse-lautrec or warhol (or even glaser or yakoo), they seem to get rid of them in time. i think it's called "de-accessing".

they "collected" several of my posters back in the 1980's. i was real proud of that. i even kept and framed the letter they sent me (i'm a dork). however, a few years ago, i checked on the status of the posters they had (through a friend who worked there at moma) and they could find no record of them at all. still got the letter, just no posters exist in the collection. go figger.

so, the moma collection is very suspect. i find the smaller museums and "industrial" museums have better collections.

[art chantry]

oh, and the library of congress has some deep gigposter collections.