Bill Graham Presents It's a Beautiful Day, Chuck Berry
Poster
1969 (made)
1969 (made)
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David Singer produced 66 posters for Bill Graham and the Fillmore Auditorium (a legendary music venue in San Francisco, California). He was also the last artist to produce an original series for the Fillmore. Singer's designs employ diverse collaged elements, drawn from both photographic and printed sources, to produce fantastic and often surreal scenes.
Object details
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| Title | Bill Graham Presents It's a Beautiful Day, Chuck Berry (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph |
| Brief description | "Bill Graham Presents It's a Beautiful Day and Chuck Berry" psychedelic poster #224 by David Singer, USA, 1969 |
| Physical description | Psychedelic poster advertising a concert by It's a Beautiful Day and Chuck Berry. The central image features a surreal photomontage incorporating Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and a rotten apple, her face fractured, as if overlaid with fragments of broken glass upon which is a shadowy figure and a hand in a cloud-scape. The text, which sits in the white border, reads, 'Bill Graham Presents In San Francisco Fillmore West, It's a Beautiful Day, Chuck Berry, Loading Zone. Lights By Deadly Nightshade. 19 - 20 March 21 - 22'. |
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| 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 |
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| Summary | David Singer produced 66 posters for Bill Graham and the Fillmore Auditorium (a legendary music venue in San Francisco, California). He was also the last artist to produce an original series for the Fillmore. Singer's designs employ diverse collaged elements, drawn from both photographic and printed sources, to produce fantastic and often surreal scenes. |
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| Accession number | E.468-2004 |
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| Record created | October 12, 2006 |
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