Wes Wilson, the “Godfather of Psychedelic Poster Art,” dead at age 82:
The man, the myth and the legend behind countless psychedelic rock posters, Wes Wilson, has died at age 82., he died peacefully in his home Friday, Jan. 24, in Aurora, Mo.
Born Robert Wesley Wilson in Sacramento, Calif., on July 15, 1937, Wilson’s trippy artistic style started off on handbills he created for Bill Graham for small concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, but his art gained a lot of popularity and over the years, his talent and style landed him as one of the “big five” artists in Haight Ashbury during the 1960s hippie counterculture era.
Wilson was a college dropout who left his day job to go live in a hotel and start a printing company to end up making posters for things like the Merry Prankster Acid Tests. Sounds like a parent’s worst nightmare. However, the risks paid off when some of Wilson’s biggest successes were designing iconic posters for the Grateful Dead and
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