Otis Rush & His Chicago Blues Band / Grateful Dead / The Canned Heat Blues Band
Object Details
- Date
- 1967
- Designer
- Wes Wilson, American, 1937 – 2020
- 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.
- made in
- San Francisco, California, USA
- place depicted
- San Francisco, California, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Accession Number
- 1979-34-28
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 56.8 × 34.8 cm (22 3/8 × 13 11/16 in.)
- Record ID
- chndm_1979-34-28
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.