Byrds Byrds Byrds
Poster
1967 (printed)
1967 (printed)
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A poster advertising performances by The Byrds and other rock bands at Winterland, California, during 31 March to 1 April 1967, and at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, on 2 April 1967. Wes Wilson's dreamy, sinuous image features highly stylised forms and lettering evocative of Art Nouveau, a decorative style that swept across Europe and the USA in the 1890s. The psychedelic rock posters created by artists working in San Francisco from the early 1960s broke the mould of poster art and became highly collectable, partly because of their almost mystical impenetrability.
Object details
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| Title | Byrds Byrds Byrds (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph |
| Brief description | Wilson, Wes Byrds Byrds Byrds |
| Physical description | Poster |
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| Credit line | Given by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Reproduced courtesy of the artist. Copyright Bill Graham Enterprises |
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| Summary | A poster advertising performances by The Byrds and other rock bands at Winterland, California, during 31 March to 1 April 1967, and at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, on 2 April 1967. Wes Wilson's dreamy, sinuous image features highly stylised forms and lettering evocative of Art Nouveau, a decorative style that swept across Europe and the USA in the 1890s. The psychedelic rock posters created by artists working in San Francisco from the early 1960s broke the mould of poster art and became highly collectable, partly because of their almost mystical impenetrability. |
| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1968 London: HMSO, 1969. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.396-1968 |
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| Record created | March 5, 2003 |
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