Tag Archives: wes wilson

beatnik lettering

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: est we forget …. this is what ‘beatnik’ lettering looked like. this is also what early ‘psychedelic’ lettering looked like until wes wilson discovered the wonders of art nouveau typography in an old art history text book … Continue reading →

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go wes’ young man

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: extremely early artwork by legendary psych poster master wes wilson. this is chet helms’ wedding invite form late 1965. this is an unused logo design for “el ojo mystico” surfboards. this was late in his career and … Continue reading →

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fakin’ it

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: here is another great example of that “fake psychedelic” bubble style illustration that we all love so much (sorry i can’t fit the whole unfolded LP cover on my scanner.). the situation here is not that it’s … Continue reading →

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fake psych vibe

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is a primo example of what i’m talking about when i mention “fake psych”. there was a period of time back in the mid to late 1960′s where the businessheads in america saw what “them kids” … Continue reading →

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handbill me down: fatal metaphors for an age

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is b&w photocopy (all i have anymore) of a small 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 handbill for a concert at the seattle center’s memorial stadium (now next to the EMP. hendrix played his first seattle headline … Continue reading →

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fake im-poster: real artifact

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is the very first psychedelic poster i ever collected. it wasn’t the first psych poster i ever saw – i was already very familiar with all those san francisco posters from the fillmore and avalon, etc. … Continue reading →

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pelican & piano

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) this little poster (a repro given to me by my pal, scott mcdougall) is for an appearance by carol doda signing copies of the The Pelican, a humor/opinion newspaper/magazine of the students of Berkeley College, … Continue reading →

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sock it to them: laughing last in our discontent

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Art

Laugh-In. canned laughter and forced hip…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): In the mid to late 1960′s, the psychedelic underground revolution had already started to wane. it was a literal flash-in-the-pan. All of the original pioneers had morphed into varying sorts of … Continue reading →

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still figgering it out

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Dave

Getting  beyond psychedelic but hardly nostalgic about Victor Moscoso… Art Chantry (Art@artchantry.com ): When I first discovered psychedelic posters back in the late 60′s, I was introduced to them through the work of Stanley ‘Mouse’ Miller. The first psych poster … Continue reading →

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