Grateful Dead, Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band, and the Doors – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Grateful Dead, Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band, and the Doors comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Grateful Dead, Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band, and the Doors
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Junior Wells, a Chicago blues harmonica player and singer, shares this 1966 bill with the Grateful Dead and the Doors, a pairing that reflects how San Francisco's music scene drew on Chicago blues. The poster was promoted under the banner "Bill Graham Presents," and Graham's concerts were central to the city's late-1960s rock circuit. The artist, Wes Wilson, was one of the leading designers of that scene, and he treated the lettering as image, bending and layering letters until they were partly hard to read. That approach helped shape the look of San Francisco concert posters and influenced poster design well beyond the Bay Area.
| Created / published | c1966. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Notes | Bill Graham presents in San Francisco." Promotional goal: U.S. K762. 1966. Copyright by Wes Wilson. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf |
| Subjects | Grateful Dead (Musical group)--1960-1970. Doors (Musical group)--1960-1970. Rock groups--California--1960-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,161 × 1,480 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218714 |
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