Artwork by Wes Wilson
a partial listing
Born in 1937, Wes was an internationally-recognized name in the art world by the time he was only 30 years old.
Among Wes's many other accomplishments, he created the poster for the last Beatles concert ever, he was the first person to ever use a skeleton in a piece of Grateful Dead artwork, and he was the in-house poster artists for both the famous Fillmore Auditorium and Avalon Ballroom contemporaneously.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
I) the Bill Graham Presents numbered poster series
II) The Family Dog numbered poster series
III) The Art of Rock by Paul Grushkin
IV) other artwork
V) articles
- the Bill Graham Presents numbered poster series:
- [all of the first 63 posters (0-62) except for 0, 1, 27, 33, 49, 52, & 59]
- BG 2
- BG 3
- BG 4
- BG 5
- BG 6
- BG 7
- BG 8
- BG 9
- BG 10
- BG 11
- BG 12
- BG 13
- BG 14
- BG 15
- BG 16
- BG 17
- BG 18
- BG 19
- BG 20
- BG 21
- BG 22
- BG 23
- BG 24
- BG 25
- BG 26
- BG 28
- BG 29
- BG 30
- BG 31
- BG 32
- BG 34
- BG 35
- BG 36
- BG 37
- BG 38
- BG 39
- BG 40
- BG 41
- BG 42
- BG 43
- BG 44
- BG 45
- BG 46
- BG 47
- BG 48
- BG 50
- BG 51
- BG 53
- BG 54
- BG 55
- BG 56
- BG 57
- BG 58
- BG 60
- BG 61
- BG 62
- BG 150
- BG 151
- The Family Dog numbered poster series:
- FD 1
- FD 2
- FD 3
- FD 4
- FD 5
- FD 6
- FD 7
- FD 8
- FD 9
- FD 10
- FD 12
- FD 15
- FD 88
- FD 113
- FD 137
- FD 138
- FD 139
- FD 140
- FD 141
- FD 142
- FD 143
- FD 144
- The Art of Rock by Paul Grushkin:
- dust jacket: front
- AOR 1.115 (Candlestick Park Beatles poster)
- AOR 2.7 (an Acid Test)
- AOR 2.13 (hand-colored version of FD 1)
- AOR 2.42 (Trips Festival flier)
- AOR [2.43?] ("Flier: Trips Festival (back)")
- AOR 2.49 (uncut progressive proof of BG 48)
- AOR 2.50 (uncut progressive proof BG 57)
- AOR 2.69 (Delano Strike Benefit)
- AOR 2.75 (A.R.T.S. Benefit)
- AOR 2.234 (Righteous Brothers, Nino Tempo, & April Stevens)
- AOR 2.243 (Haight-Ashbury Festival)
- AOR 2.338 ("Grateful Dead; Jaywalkers")
- AOR 2.349 (Joint Show)
- AOR 2.362 (Allen Ginsberg Broadside)
- AOR 2.363 (Are We Next?)
- AOR 2.364 (Opening [The Red Hat Restaurant])
- AOR 3.20 (Opening [New Dream Bowl])
- AOR 3.180 (Promotional Poster [Retinal Circus Light Show])
- AOR p.87: lower left ("Interim Handbill" ("Next week's Posters are late because Poster Artist's wife is giving birth."))
- AOR 116: lower right
- AOR p.322 (Joint Show II)
- photos:
- p.74- lower left: "Wes Wilson, San Francisco, 1966"
- p.87- upper right: "Wes Wilson on the cover of California Living (November 1966)"
- p.323- top: "The Five Joint Show Artists"
- p.323- bottom: "The Five Joint Show II Artists"
- Art of Rock promotional poster
- other articles:
- the differently-colored 1986 reprints of several of his classic Fillmore and/or Avalon posters
- "Looking Back" (the artwork/poster for his show at The Springfield Art Museum 12/89-1/90)
- "An Exhibition of Psychedelic Posters" (10/6-14/67 @ UC-Berkeley)
- one of the Springfield, Missouri St. Patrick's Day parade posters [1990s?; 1980s??]
- one of the IMAGINE posters (an annual John Lennon benefit) [year?]
- the Jupiter Hollow CD (probably CD surface; [possibly CD insert?])
- the 1994 Johnny Strickler Quartet poster for The Bar Next Door
- some pieces of enameled glass artwork
- many contemporary paintings ("Lee", "Judy At Dawn", etc.)
- and many others - both published and unpublished
- articles:
- California Living magazine November 1966 article & cover (either a sub-periodical included in The San Francisco Examiner or published by them)
- GRAPHIS International magazine article
- Life magazine [September?? 1967?] article
- Look magazine article
- Time magazine April 1967 article
- and probably several others
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