Howlin' Wolf
Object Details
- Designer
- Peter Bailey
- Manufacturer
- Bill Graham, American, b. Germany, 1931–1991
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Poster for a 1967 concert in San Francisco, featuring Howlin' Wolf, Country Joe and the Fish, and Loading Zone.
- Predominently white background, purple female figure in mustard dress. Bottom of dress is made up of flowers and text:
- Fillmore Aud.
- Fri Sat Apr 14-15 8pm-2am $3: Sun Apr 16 2pm to 7pm $2
- Behind her, extremely stylized, attenuated pink text:
- Howlin' Wolf
- In mustard and white text on the right side:
- Country Joe Loading Zone & The Fish
- Visual simulation: Head Lights
- Top border, in red outline all-caps san-serif, on mustard:
- Presented in San Francisco by Bill Graham
- Bottom border, ticket listings in white on purple.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer
- 1967
- Accession Number
- 1979-34-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Frame: 56.5 x 41.3 x 2.5 cm (22 1/4 x 16 1/4 x 1 in.)
- Overall: 55.4 x 34 cm (21 13/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1979-34-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq49984c92c-2ecc-499a-92da-5d400da12d00
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