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Girl with Green Hair. The Family Dog presents Jim Kweskin Jug Band and Big Brother and the Holding Company

Poster
1966 (made)
Artist/Maker
Kelly, Alton (artist)
Mouse, Stanley (artist)
Mucha (artist)
Place of origin
San Francisco (made)

Psychedelic poster, offset lithography, promoting the rock groups Jim Kweskin Jug Band and Big Brother and the Holding Company


Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleGirl with Green Hair. The Family Dog presents Jim Kweskin Jug Band and Big Brother and the Holding Company (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Offset lithography
Paper
Printing Ink
Lithography
Brief description
Psychedelic poster promoting rock groups Jim Kweskin Jug Band and Big Brother and the Holding Company at the Avalon Ballroom, offset lithography, by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse, San Francisco, 1966
Physical description
Psychedelic poster, offset lithography, promoting the rock groups Jim Kweskin Jug Band and Big Brother and the Holding Company
Marks and inscriptions
  • Dance Concept / Jim Kweskin / Jug Band / Electric Train (Text of poster, top right area.)
  • Big Brother / & the / Holding / Company. (Text of poster, top left area.)
  • October 7 October 8 / Avalon / Ballroom (Text of poster, bottom.)
Gallery label
"Here the central image was borrowed from Mucha's Job cigarette poster of 1897. Both American and British poster artists found inspiration in art nouveau artists of the 1890s." Text by Julia Bigham
Credit line
Given by the American Friends of the V&A through the generosity of Phil Cushway
Subjects depicted
Music
Popular Culture
Bibliographic reference
Christoph Grunberg, ed. Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era London: Tate, 2005. 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ISBN: 1854375954.
Other number
FD 29 - Poster number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.58-1999

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Record createdApril 13, 2005
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O111093/girl-with-green-hair-the-poster-kelly-alton/
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