New Year Eve Bill Graham 1968 Grateful Dead

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Original vintage advertising poster to promote the double bill of New Year's Eve parties in 1968-1969 organised by the famous rock music concert promoter Bill Graham (1918-1991), held at Fillmore West and at the Winterland Arena in San Francisco from 9pm to 9am. The image on the left promotes the party at Fillmore West with performances by Vanilla Fudge, Richie Havens, Young Bloods and Cold Blood, featuring a colourful psychedelic illustration by the poster artist Lee Conklin (b 1941) of a yellow hourglass decorated with human body parts including buttocks, breasts, feet, toes and face gargoyles, the inside filled with tiny naked people instead of sand, the text in stylised red, blue and green letters. The image on the right promotes the Fillmore Scene party at Winterland with performances by Grateful Dead, It’s a Beautiful Day, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Santana, also featuring a colourful psychedelic illustration by Lee Conklin, this one depicting a young baby coming out of a human skull surrounded with colourful flowers and and leaves placed on top of a pair of breasts with the rest of the design decorated by distorted human and animal body parts, the text in stylised orange, green, blue and white letters. Horizontal. Good condition, minor tears and paper losses in margins, cracks, creases, pinholes.

Country USA
Year 1968
Artist Lee Conklin
Width (cm) 71.5
Height (cm) 53.5
Linen backed? No

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