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Junior Wells

Poster
1968 (made)
Artist/Maker
Family Dog Productions (issued by)
Lundgren, Carl (designer)
Place of origin
United States (made)

Psychedelic poster advertising a concert featuring Junior Wells. The upper half of the poster features a fantasy scene of a naked woman riding a dinosaur within a sci-fi landscape. The lower part of the poster displays the event details. Printed in a hand-drawn font in pink, orange, yellow, green and blue letters, the text reads, 'Junior Wells, Canned Heat Fri-Sat, Crome Syrcus, Sun, Clover, Jerry Abrams - Lights, May 4-5, Avalon Ballroom. The Family Dog logo appears at the centre of this text, and crops of toadstools are illustrated in each of the lower corners. The poster is printed in black, silver and multi-coloured inks.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Entertainment & Leisure
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleJunior Wells (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Paper
Ink
Brief description
Psychedelic poster advertising a concert featuring Junior Wells, by Carl Lundgren for Family Dog Productions, USA, 1968
Physical description
Psychedelic poster advertising a concert featuring Junior Wells. The upper half of the poster features a fantasy scene of a naked woman riding a dinosaur within a sci-fi landscape. The lower part of the poster displays the event details. Printed in a hand-drawn font in pink, orange, yellow, green and blue letters, the text reads, 'Junior Wells, Canned Heat Fri-Sat, Crome Syrcus, Sun, Clover, Jerry Abrams - Lights, May 4-5, Avalon Ballroom. The Family Dog logo appears at the centre of this text, and crops of toadstools are illustrated in each of the lower corners. The poster is printed in black, silver and multi-coloured inks.
Dimensions
  • Height: 50.5cm
  • Width: 34.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'JUNIOR WELLS / CANNED / HEAT FRI-SAT / CROME / SYRCUS / SUN / CLOVER, JERRY ABRAMS - LIGHTS,/ MAY 3-4-5, AVALON BALLROOM’ (Event details, printed beneath the image in pink, orange, yellow, green or blue stylised letters)
  • TICKET OUTLETS SAN FRANCISCO: MNASIDIKA (HAIGHT-ASHBURY), CITYLIGHTS BOOKS (NORTH BEACH), THE TOWN SQUIRE (1318 POLK), BERKELEY: DISCOUNT / RECORDS. SAUSALITO: TIDES BOOKSTORE. REDWOOD CITY: REDWOOD HOUSE OF MUSIC (700 WINSLOW). SAN MATEO: LA MER CAMERAS & / MUSIC (HILLSDALE AT 19TH). MENLO PARK: KEPLER'S BOOKS & MAGAZINES (825 EL CAMINO). PALO ALTO: EAST FARTHING TRADING CO. / (616 COWPER). SAN JOSE: DISCORAMA (235 SO. FIRST ST.) / © 1968 FAMILY DOG PRODUCTIONS 639 GOUGH ST. San Francisco. Calif. 94102' (Ticket vendors, below image, white lettering)
  • 'carl lundgren 522-2285' (Artist's name, lower right corner, black hand-written letters)
  • 'No.117-1' (Lower left corner, black letters, poster number)
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
Psychedelic
Science Fiction
Women
Nudes
Dinosaurs
Other numbers
  • LS.789 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
  • No. 117-1 - Poster number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.418-2004

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Record createdAugust 7, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O126893/junior-wells-poster-lundgren-carl/
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