Object Details
Designer
Wes Wilson, American, b. 1937
Printer
West Coast Lithograph Co., San Francisco, California, USA
Client
Bill Graham, American, b. Germany, 1931–1991
For
The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Poster featuring a face in profile, facing towards the left and covered in curving lines made up of small black dots. The face is surrounded by pink, black, and light grey streams of flowing, wavy hair. Within the hair, one can read the following text in thick, curving bubble letters: in pink, upper left: OTIS RUSH / & HIS CHICAGO BLUES BAND; in black, upper right: GRATEFUL / DEAD; center right: THE ? CANNED / HEAT BLUES / BAND; in pink, center right: FR ? SAT ? SUN / FEBRUARY / 24 ? 25 ? 26 / FRI ? SAT ? 9 PM ? $3.00 / SUN ? 2 • 7 PM ? $2.00; in light grey, across bottom: AT THE FILLMORE.
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer
Date
1967
Accession Number
1979-34-28
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
graphic design
Object Name
Poster
Type
Poster
Medium
Offset lithograph on white wove paper
Dimensions
H x W: 56.8 × 34.8 cm (22 3/8 × 13 11/16 in.)
made in
San Francisco, California, USA
place depicted
San Francisco, California, USA
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1979-34-28