psychedelic artwork

Jimi Hendrix and the Flying Eyeball are images indelibly linked in the psychedelic poster art of the late Rick Griffin. Griffin discovered The Eyeball, in a much ...  more

Twas probably not good advice passed 'twixt lips and ear in BGP160. Metallica and Korn, both popular heavy metal bands, enjoyed the rich, realistic and ...  more

The Native American and the old-fashioned Wild West medicine show were featured in this complex poster in which color did not compete with the artwork and ...  more

The backstage is a fortress, each inner door demanding a further credential of access. Also known as silkies or satins, backstage passes were the first created ...  more

One could not say that conventional beauty was artist Lee Conklin's goal. In BG145, the psychedelic experience was evident in Ten Years After and Country Weather ...  more

Concert promoters created handbill versions of many of their posters and used them as sidewalk handouts and dashboard fliers to promote upcoming shows. Many of the ...  more

From this concert emerged "Bless Its Little Pointed Head," the definitive and first live-concert recording of San Francisco's premier psychedelic band. ...  more

Promoters often created postcard versions of many of their concert posters and used them as promotional mailings. The postcards in Wolfgang's Vault are unique, ...  more

Millbrook House is the Dutchess County, N.Y. mansion where the recently de-prof'ed Timothy Leary carried on his psychedelic research from 1963 to 1966. ...  more

In the world of psychedelic poster art, Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley reigned supreme through the hallowed early age of concert posters. To celebrate the coming of ...  more

Everything about this Randy Tuten artwork was sleek; the passenger train express, the industrial ductwork and the nose-diving blimp. The more liquid lettering, ...  more

BG248 was 20 year-old Norman Orr's first poster for Bill Graham. Orr's early lettering style reflected the influence of his artistic hero, Rick Griffin, but the ...  more

Randy Tuten's "market-the-performers" artwork was an easy read for music patrons when it was slipped into the series of David Singer-designed posters. The ...  more

Jimi Hendrix and the Flying Eyeball are images indelibly linked in the psychedelic poster art of the late Rick Griffin. Griffin discovered The Eyeball, in a much ...  more

The peacock shows up in Bonnie MacLean's artwork as a Yardbird reference in this dual offering poster: the Yardbirds performed three days, the Doors performed three ...  more

The peacock shows up in Bonnie MacLean's artwork as a Yardbird reference in this dual offering poster: the Yardbirds performed three days, the Doors performed three ...  more

When it came to creating psychedelic imagery, Lee Conklin had no peer. BG126 reveals more with each perusal, albeit revealing a lot of "ubiquitous breasts and ...  more

Drugs provided a lense through which Wes Wilson re-interpreted the ordinary, and he put the psychedelic experience on paper in BG048. His central face dissolves and ...  more

Deep into the psychedelic age, poster artist Lee Conklin took the notion of visual hallucination to a whole new level with his twisted, writhing images of figures, ...  more

More than any other album of the era, Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow would come to define the emerging San Francisco sound, with its psychedelic fusion of ...  more