70 rock n roll posters

Research into 70 rock poster designs 

 in 1960s and 70s rock ’n’ roll posters. We strive to offer the best selection available of the rare

 and collectible psychedelic posters that revolutionized poster art worldwide and advertised 

the live music of legendary bands and performers at venues that included The Fillmore 

Auditorium, the Avalon Ballroom, and the Grande Ballroom. 


for the first time the psychedelic poster art being created by the leading pioneers of the “psychedelic” concert poster: 

Wes Wilson, Alton Kelly, Stanley Mouse, Rick Griffin, and Victor Moscoso. Soon thereafter, the art they created would be celebrated at countless gallery shows, in museum 

collections, and at arts exhibitions worldwide. 

Here’s the story of how these artists came to be in San Francisco at the dawn of the 60s counterculture, and how the psychedelic poster art movement they created quickly swept the world.

Artist:wel wilson poster

Wilson is generally acknowledged as the father of the 60s rock concert poster. 

In 1968, he received an award from the National 

Endowment for the Arts for “his contributions to American 
Art.” He pioneered what is now known as the psychedelic poster.

artist:Stanley mouse

The Art Nouveau style of celebrated Czech designer 

Alphonse Mucha was another major source that influenced Wilson’s work. In late 1966, Wilson created a 

poster for Bill Graham’s Winterland that has been nicknamed  It combines Wilson’s ability to fill all available space with vibrant, flowing letters together with his admiration and respect for the feminine form.

 It is one of a handful of posters from that era that is considered representative of the entire period. Wilson’s 

treatment of women and the feminine form is one of his most lasting contributions to the poster art of the sixties. 

It has been said that the psychedelic poster—as we have come to know it—was defined by Wes Wilson sometime 

in the summer of 1966. Wilson did his last poster for Bill 

Graham in May of 1967 but continued to produce posters for the Avalon and other venues.