Lenny Bruce – The Mothers – The Mothers of Invention
Item Number BG013-PO
Third Edition
Framed Price $895.00
ARTIST Wes Wilson – Edmund Shea
DATE Jun 24, 1966
VENUE Fillmore Auditorium (San Francisco, CA)
SIZE 13 7/8″ x 20″
Framed Size 30 1/2 x 20 1/4
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.