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UFO Dusk to Dawn

Poster
1967 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Osiris Visions (publishers)
McInnerney, Michael (artist)
Place of origin
England (made)

Psychedelic poster. Blue through pink and red, overlapping to produce brown in places.

Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Poster
TitleUFO Dusk to Dawn (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Silkscreen screenprint
Paper
Screenprint
Brief description
Psychedelic poster by Michael McInnerney for the UFO Club, promoting the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Alexis Korner on July 11 and Tomorrow and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on July 21, 1967.
Physical description
Psychedelic poster. Blue through pink and red, overlapping to produce brown in places.
Dimensions
  • Height: 75.5cm
  • Width: 50cm
Gallery label
"Michael McInnerney (born 1944)
UFO Dusk to Dawn. Poster promoting The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Alexis Korner on July 11 and Tomorrow and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on July 21
1967
Published by Osiris Visions Ltd.
Screenprint
E.1712-1991

The artist depicted dusk turning into dawn, with glistening droplets linking the colour opposites blue and red in perpetual motion, and the night inspiring mystical figures and uplifting forms.
McInnerney was early involved in the Underground scene, working for the London Free School and early forerunners to IT such as The Grove. He was art editor of IT until March 1967 but continued designing posters for UFO, key underground events and general esoteric posters. He also designed record sleeves, the most well-known of which was for The Who's 'Tommy' in 1968, and editorial illustration. His wedding in the summer of '67 was a widely reported event, with Michael X, a black power leader, organising the steel band, macrobiotic food etc in Hyde Park."

Text by Julia Bigham.
Subjects depicted
Psychedelic Art
Groups
Concerts
Psychedelic
Sixties
Arthur Brown
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
OA 110
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1712-1991

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Record createdNovember 15, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129220/ufo-dusk-to-dawn-poster-mcinnerney-michael/
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