Ten Years After, Spirit, Terry Reid, The Bar-Kays, Savoy Brown
Date1969
Artist
David Singer
(American artist and designer, born 1941)
Printer/Printmaker
Tea Lautrec Litho, San Francisco
Publisher
Bill Graham
(American concert promoter and poster publisher, 1931–1991)
Illustration CitationAdvertisement for concerts at the Fillmore West, August 26–31, 1969
MediumOffset lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 22 × 14 in. (55.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alice and Leslie Schreyer, 1984
Object number1984-142
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextSinger used collage to create unexpected, surreal images for eye-catching concert posters. Here he has placed two images of Michelangelo's David in a desolate landscape that recalls images of the surface of the moon taken by astronauts on the first moon landing in the summer of 1969.