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Otis Rush & His Chicago Blues Band, Grateful Dead, The Canned Heat Blues Band at The Fillmore

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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Object Details

Designer
Wes Wilson, American, b. 1937
Printer
West Coast Lithograph Co., San Francisco, California, USA
Client
Bill Graham, American, b. Germany, 1931–1991
For
The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Poster featuring a face in profile, facing towards the left and covered in curving lines made up of small black dots. The face is surrounded by pink, black, and light grey streams of flowing, wavy hair. Within the hair, one can read the following text in thick, curving bubble letters: in pink, upper left: OTIS RUSH / & HIS CHICAGO BLUES BAND; in black, upper right: GRATEFUL / DEAD; center right: THE ? CANNED / HEAT BLUES / BAND; in pink, center right: FR ? SAT ? SUN / FEBRUARY / 24 ? 25 ? 26 / FRI ? SAT ? 9 PM ? $3.00 / SUN ? 2 • 7 PM ? $2.00; in light grey, across bottom: AT THE FILLMORE.
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer
1967
Accession Number
1979-34-28
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
graphic design
Object Name
Poster
Type
Poster
Medium
Offset lithograph on white wove paper
Dimensions
57 × 34.9 cm (22 7/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
made in
San Francisco, CA, USA
place depicted
San Francisco, CA, USA
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Record ID
chndm_1979-34-28
Metadata Usage (text)
Not determined
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq497d348e4-8ae0-48b3-9d32-fc7eef299c48

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