(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Art) David Lance Goines. YMCA

Edition of 1827 (of which 125 copies are signed). Berkeley: St. Hieronymous Press, April 10, 2003. Client: Berkeley-Albany YMCA. A fantastic and lush 8-color poster, reminiscent of the WWII posters created for the YMCA. Of his inspiration for this design, Goines wrote,  "In 1933, the bottom of the Depression, my father lived with his dad in a room at the Muscatine, Iowa, YMCA. He finished eighth grade in Jackson Elementary School, and as he remembers it had a great time. He had access to the gymnasium and the swimming pool, and was pretty much on his own. Life high on the hog, as he put it. That time with his dad was one of the very few happy memories my father had of his childhood, which, like many during the Depression, was otherwise one long tale of misery, uncertainty and privation. By lending a helping hand, the Y made it possible for my grandfather to care for his son during hard times. The war came along, and everybody who wanted a job had one, and in September of 1944 my dad