David H. Mihaly

David Mihaly is the Jay T. Last Curator of Graphic Arts and Social History. He is responsible for the Library’s 1 million prints, posters, and ephemera. He has curated two Huntington exhibitions: “The Color Explosion: Nineteenth-Century American Lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection” and “Your Country Calls! Posters of the First World War.” He is currently working on two more: “Childhood Education in Nineteenth-Century America” and “The Color of Birds.”

Mihaly received his M.A. in history museum studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program, State University of New York. He has developed more than 30 major exhibitions for clients, including the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, ArtCenter College of Design, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Chrysler Museum of Glass, Johns Hopkins University, the National Parks Service in Pennsylvania, Revolutionary Spaces in Boston, the Smithsonian, and the Walters Art Gallery.

He presents regularly on diverse topics of popular culture, ranging from American advertising, valentine ephemera, and political propaganda to California surf culture and psychedelia.