Poster for the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Poster
1967 (made)
1967 (made)
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Psychedelic poster in blue, pink and red on metallic gold background. Image of Jimi Hendrix on right.
Object details
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| Title | Poster for the Jimi Hendrix Experience (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Silkscreen screenprint |
| Brief description | Psychedelic screenprint poster by Michael English and Nigel Waymouth promoting a concert for the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Fillmore Auditorium, published by the Osiris Agency. British, 1967. |
| Physical description | Psychedelic poster in blue, pink and red on metallic gold background. Image of Jimi Hendrix on right. |
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| Gallery label | "Michael English (born 1942) and Nigel Waymouth (born 1941)
Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Fillmore Auditorium, June 20-25
1967
Published by Osiris Agency, Ltd.
Screenprint
E.1703-1991
Jimi Hendrix specially requested that Hapshash designed his poster rather than one of the many talented artists associated with the Fillmore Auditorium in America. Hendrix was from Seattle and had Native American blood in him and so was depicted as a magic medicine man. His birth sign was incorporated in the floral spiral held by the dragon, which was in fact a direct copy from Alphonse Mucha's poster for 'Lorenzaccio' 1896 (on display in the main building, Room 8).
Other members of the group, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding, are depicted in the background. Hendrix, although American, established his reputation after he had arrived in Britain, in 1967."
Text by Julia Bigham. |
| Object history | Poster promoting a concert at the Fillmore Auditorium. Published by the Osiris Agency. |
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| 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 | OA103 |
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| Accession number | E.1703-1991 |
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| Record created | November 10, 2006 |
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