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Sunshine Superman

Poster
1967 (made)
Artist/Maker
Big O Posters Ltd (Publisher)
Sharp, Martin (designer)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Psychedelic poster. Metallic silver background with black text and images, including ballerinas and other performers. Middle section is blue and white with an image of Donovan and more text.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Psychedelia
Object type
Poster
TitleSunshine Superman (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Offset lithograph
Paper
Offset Lithograph
Printing
Brief description
Psychedelic poster by Martin Sharp promoting Donovan entitled 'Sunshine Superman', published by Big O Posters Ltd. Britain, 1967.
Physical description
Psychedelic poster. Metallic silver background with black text and images, including ballerinas and other performers. Middle section is blue and white with an image of Donovan and more text.
Marks and inscriptions
  • Sunshine Superman (Text of poster.)
  • Sunshine came softly through my window today (Text of poster, along top edge.)
  • Mellow (Text of poster along right hand edge.)
  • Sing a song for you, that's what I mean to do Seagull (Text of poster along bottom edge.)
  • All the losers are grooving but that's up to you... (Text of poster along left edge.)
  • The Magicia[n] / He sparkle [ed? es?] / in satin / and velvet / you gaze at his / splendour wit[h] / eyes you've not used / I tell you you his name is Love, Love (Text in middle section of poster.)
Credit line
Given by Peter Ledeboer
Object history
Gift from Peter Ledeboer (RF 2001/127)
Subjects depicted
Psychedelic Art
Folk
Music
Sunshine
Psychedelia
Leitch, Donovan
Bibliographic reference
Christoph Grunberg, ed. Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era London: Tate, 2005. 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ISBN: 1854375954.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.433-2006

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Record createdDecember 13, 2006
Record URL
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