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Bill Graham Presents Jefferson Airplane

Poster
1967 (made)
Artist/Maker
MacLean, Bonnie (designer)
Graham, Bill (issued by)
Greene, Herb (photographer)
Place of origin
United States (made)

Psychedelic poster advertising a concert for Jefferson Airplane. A photograph of one of the band-members dressed as a priest, in a circular frame within a highly decorated Gothic-style carving features as the main part of the composition, with illustrations of carved figures around it. The event details are listed above and below the portrait. Printed in hand-drawn, stylised, red lettering, the text reads, 'Bill Graham Presents in San Francisco, Jefferson Airplane, and from Canada The Paupers, at the Fillmore, 12, 13, 14 May'. The poster is printed in brown, red and black.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Entertainment & Leisure
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleBill Graham Presents Jefferson Airplane (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Paper
Ink
Lithography
Brief description
'Bill Graham Presents Jefferson Airplane', psychedelic poster by Bonnie MacLean for Bill Graham, USA, 1967
Physical description
Psychedelic poster advertising a concert for Jefferson Airplane. A photograph of one of the band-members dressed as a priest, in a circular frame within a highly decorated Gothic-style carving features as the main part of the composition, with illustrations of carved figures around it. The event details are listed above and below the portrait. Printed in hand-drawn, stylised, red lettering, the text reads, 'Bill Graham Presents in San Francisco, Jefferson Airplane, and from Canada The Paupers, at the Fillmore, 12, 13, 14 May'. The poster is printed in brown, red and black.
Dimensions
  • Height: 58.8cm
  • Width: 36.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'BILL GRAHAM PRESENTS IN SAN FRANCISCO / Jefferson / Airplane / and from canada / The Paupers / at the FILLMORE / 12, 13, 14 / MAY'.

    Note
    Incorporated into the design of the poster, in red hand-drawn stylised lettering

  • TICKETS / SAN FRANCISCO: City Lights Bookstore; S.F. State College (Hut T-1); The Town Squire (1318 Polk); Kelley Galleries (3673 Sacramento) / Wild Colors (1418 Haight); Bally Lo (Union Square); BERKELEY: Campus Records; Discount Records; Shakespeare & Co; SAN / MATEO: Town & Country Records; REDWOOD CITY: . Redwood House of Music; SAN RAPHAEL: Sherman Clay; SAUSALITO: The Tides Bookstore.'

    Note
    Ticket vendors' information, below the main image, black typeface

  • 'B. MACLEAN © BILL GRAHAM 1967 CREATIVE LITHOGRAPHY #63'

    Note
    Artist's name and date and other information, printed along the lower-right edge of the image, as if hand-written, in black letters

  • 'PHOTO: HERB GREENE'

    Note
    Printed at the edge of the decorative frame of photograph in black letters

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
Subjects depicted
Psychedelic Art
Music
Men
Priests
Musicians
Crosses
Gothic Arch
Carvings
Roundels
Dragons
Birds
Other numbers
  • LS.803 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
  • # 63 - Poster number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.428-2004

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Record createdAugust 7, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O126884/bill-graham-presents-jefferson-airplane-poster-maclean-bonnie/
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