The Blues Project – The Mothers of Invention – The Canned Heat Blues Band
The Blues Project – The Mothers of Invention – The Canned Heat Blues Band
First Edition
Framed Price $1050.00
Item Number BG050-PO
ARTIST Wes Wilson
DATE Feb 17, 1967
VENUE Fillmore Auditorium (San Francisco, CA)
SIZE 13 11/16″ x 20 3/4″
Frame Size 30 1/4 x 23
About Wes Wilson
When the Avalon Ballroom and Bill Graham’s Fillmore Auditorium began to hold weekly dance concerts, Wilson was called upon to design the posters. He created psychedelic posters from February 1966 to May 1967, when disputes over money severed his connection with Graham. Wilson pioneered the psychedelic rock poster. Intended for a particular audience, “one that was tuned in to the psychedelic experience,” his art, and especially the exaggerated freehand lettering, emerged from Wilson’s own involvement with that experience and the psychedelic art of light shows