Bill Graham Presents Boz Scaggs, Tower of Power
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 Boz Scaggs, Tower of Power (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph |
| Brief description | "Bill Graham Presents Boz Scaggs and Tower of Power" psychedelic poster #285 by David Singer, USA, 1969 |
| Physical description | Psychedelic poster advertising a concert by Boz Scaggs and Tower of Power. Two nude figures, printed in blue, one winged, the other with a flower-like halo, embrace within an Art Nouveau smoke-like scheme printed in orange. All of this is set upon a grey ground. The text, which is mainly printed below the image in blue, reads, 'Bill Graham Presents In San Francisco Fillmore West, Boz Sczggs, Tower of Power, Mason Proffit. Lights - Crimson Madness. Jun 17 - 20 Fillmore West'. |
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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.476-2004 |
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| Record created | October 12, 2006 |
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