Grateful Dead
| Band/Artist | Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead |
| Supporting Act | Paupers, Alive & Collage |
| Artist | Wes Wilson |
| Sponsor | Bill Graham |
| Type | Gig Poster |
| Country | United States |
| 1967 | |
| Dimensions | 24.0 × 36.0 cm |
| Notes | Wes Wilson creation for a 1967 Grateful Dead concert with Paupers, Alive and Collage was printed using a “split fountain” technique. The background of this original varies from green at the top to yellow to pink at the bottom. The art is printed in black ink. The central image is an illustration of a nude woman viewed from the hips up. Around her are several men’s faces. One of the nice touches of this poster is the yin and yang symbol in the woman’s hand. Wilson placed the arrow symbol for male and the plus-sign symbol for female inside the yin and yang, with both symbols containing faces. Many people believe that this, the last poster in this part of the series, was Wilson’s best. By this point he had thoroughly modified the Roller alphabet into his own. Not-to-be-missed is the symbology of the venomous snake with the dollar sign between its fangs. The original poster comes in two varieties, both of which were printed on white index stock and measure approximately 14⅛″ x 24″. |
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