Lithograph poster for 1968 concert in San Francisco, featuring Canned Heat, Gordon Lightfoot, and Cold Blood. Border of swirling, interconnected figures, faces, breasts and curlicues in pink, yellow, purple, red, black. Text seems to grow out of an orange-and pink urn at the bottom of the page in a mushroom-like form.

Central block of text in stylized, distorted letters:
Canned Heat
Gordon Lightfoot
Cold Blood
Fillmore
West

Surrounding "Fillmore West" appears to be a background growing out of the border chaos, but is actually stylized green text on yellow:

Thurs Fri Sat. Oct 3 4 5 (lower left)
Lights by Holy See (lower right)

Black banner along top edge with red text: Bill Graham Presents in San Francisco; block of text along bottom edge with ticket locations.

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Object Timeline

1968	Work on this object began.
1979	We acquired this object.
2007	We photographed this object.
2008	We exhibited this object.
2013	We photographed this object. This was an Object of the Day.
2015	We photographed this object.
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Poster, Canned Heat, 1968

This is a Poster. It was designed by Lee Conklin and printed by Tea Lautrec Litho. It is dated 1968 and we acquired it in 1979. Its medium is offset lithograph on white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Psychedlic Promotion.

This object was donated by Mr. Leslie Schreyer and Mrs. Alice Schreyer. It is credited Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer.

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lithograph on wove paper.
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Poster of Junior Wells in green singing with microphone in hand on red background. Text above and below image.

Poster, Junior Wells, 1966
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
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1979-34-37

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offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer.
1979-34-28

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Its dimensions are

Frame: 56.5 x 41.3 x 2.5 cm (22 1/4 x 16 1/4 x 1 in.) Overall: 53.8 x 36 cm (21 3/16 x 14 3/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed, center left: Lee Conklin

It is inscribed

Bill Graham presents in San Francisco; Canned Heat, Gordon Lightfoot, Cold Blood; Fillmore Auditorium Lee Conklin c1968 Bill Graham #139 Tea Lautrec Litho S.F.

Cite this object as

Poster, Canned Heat, 1968; Designed by Lee Conklin (b. 1941); offset lithograph on white wove paper; Frame: 56.5 x 41.3 x 2.5 cm (22 1/4 x 16 1/4 x 1 in.) Overall: 53.8 x 36 cm (21 3/16 x 14 3/16 in.); Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer; 1979-34-5

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CNPz/
Accession Number 1979-34-5
Object ID 18498031