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Big Brother and the Holding Company

Poster
1968 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Psychedelic image depicting a hand holding a flaming torch

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleBig Brother and the Holding Company (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Brief description
"Big Brother" psychedelic poster #136 by Rick Griffin. USA, 1968.
Physical description
Psychedelic image depicting a hand holding a flaming torch
Dimensions
  • Height: 55.9cm
  • Width: 35.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Rick Griffin/ #136 © Bill Graham 1968
  • Bill Graham Presents in San Francisco (Text of poster, at top edge.)
  • Big Brother / Santana / Sept (Text of poster)
Credit line
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Subject depicted
Place depicted
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
LS.752 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
Collection
Accession number
E.395-2004

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Record createdDecember 23, 2004
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