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Bill Graham Presents The New Generation and The Jaywalkers with The Charlatans

Bill Graham Presents The New Generation and The Jaywalkers with The Charlatans

Wes Wilson
American, 1937–2020
1966
A 1966 lithograph concert poster by Wes Wilson that uses hand-drawn, distorted typography and vivid color to advertise rock shows at the Fillmore Auditorium.
Hot magenta letters bulge, bend, and ripple across a deep purple ground so the words themselves seem to pulse and sway like sound waves, with wavy margins that push your eye around the poster in a musical rhythm.
A defining example of 1960s psychedelic poster art, Wilson’s work helped invent a new visual language for countercultural music promotion and established hand-lettered lithography as a central form of rock-era graphic design.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
20 x 13 7/8" (50.8 x 35.3 cm)
Classification
Credit
Gift of the designer
Accession
1586.2000
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Art Terms
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