Jerry Garcia

Object Details

Artist: Robert Wesley Wilson, born 1937
Copy after: Herb Greene, born 1942
Sitter: Jorma Kaukonen, born 1940; Spencer Dryden, 7 Apr 1938 - 10 Jan 2005; Marty Balin, born 1942; Jack Casady, born 1944; Ronald McKernan, 1945 - 1973; William Kreutzmann, born 1946; Jerome John Garcia, 1 Aug 1943 - 9 Aug 1995; Robert Hall Weir, born 1947; Philip Chapman Lesh, born 1940

Exhibition Label: Nothing galvanized the youthful, drug-infused counterculture of the mid-1960s like rock music. Impresario Bill Graham helped launch such legendary bands as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, whose joint appearance at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium in August 1966 is advertised here. Both bands continued to perform, evolving as their audiences aged. Jefferson Airplane, and its successor Jefferson Starship, with an ever-shifting roster of musicians, performed and recorded through the 1980s. "Deadheads," as fanatic fans of the Grateful Dead were called, fueled the popularity of that band's intermittent tours and recordings until the death of renowned leader Jerry Garcia in 1995.; The psychedelic posters commissioned for Graham's 1960s Fillmore rock concerts so successfully evoked the burgeoning hippie culture that they spawned avid collecting. The neon-hued colors and illegible, swelling letters of Wes Wilson's poster designs were particularly popular and often imitated.

1966

Medium: Offset lithographic poster
Dimensions: Sheet: 50.5 x 36cm (19 7/8 x 14 3/16"); Mat: 55.9 x 40.6 x 1.9cm (22 x 16 x 3/4")

National Portrait Gallery

Topic: Poster; Commercial; Jerome John Garcia: Male; Jerome John Garcia: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician; Jerome John Garcia: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Singer\Rock; Philip Chapman Lesh: Male; Philip Chapman Lesh: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Rock; Robert Hall Weir: Male; Robert Hall Weir: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Rock; William Kreutzmann: Male; William Kreutzmann: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Rock; Marty Balin: Male; Marty Balin: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician; Jorma Kaukonen: Male; Jorma Kaukonen: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Guitarist; Jack Casady: Male; Jack Casady: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician; Spencer Dryden: Male; Spencer Dryden: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician; Ronald McKernan: Male; Ronald McKernan: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician; Portrait

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