Lee Conklin Art

Original Poster from Lee Conklin. Lee Conklin is an artist best known for his psychedelic posters from the late 1960s and particularly for his iconic cover of Santana's first album. At the time, photography was the basis of advertising, while psychedelic graphics were done by hand and were mostly based on an illustration concept. The posters of this movement claim a new aesthetic: the flashy and warm colors, the shapes and moving typography and the density of the motif that invades the space translate the psychedelic vision, often associated with the taking of substances such as LSD. The psychedelic experience was evident in Ten Years After and Country Weather entangled in the branches of the island tree, but this was not a classic tree-of-life image. Fillmore West hung from the branches on spider web threads. Brotherhood of Light - Bill Graham, Tea Lautrec Litho...

Beautiful 1969 psychedelic poster created by Lee Conklin for the concert of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fleetwood Mac and Albert Collins. Lee Conklin is an artist best known for his psychedelic posters of the late 1960s and particularly for his iconic cover of Santana's first album. At the time, photography was the basis of advertising, while psychedelic graphics were done by hand and were mostly based on an illustration concept. The posters of this movement claim a new aesthetic: the flashy and warm colors, the shapes and moving typography and the density of the motif that invades the space translate the psychedelic vision, often associated with the taking of substances such as LSD. In this poster from Lee Conklin, a large mass rests in a body of water and from this mass emerges a variety of body parts, objects and the lettering of the concert. Above are cottony clouds with human faces. The main colors are orange, red, green, white, yellow and black. Music - Psychedelic - United States 1st Draw - Bill Graham Tea Lautrec Litho...

Very nice psychedelic poster from 1968 for the Jeff Beck Group. Lee Conklin's early influences were pen and ink masters Heinrich Kley and Saul Steinberg.Aft...

This vivid original 1969 concert poster was designed by Lee Conklin, one of the iconic artists of the psychedelic poster movement, for a legendary series of shows at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. Featuring Santana, The Youngbloods, and Allmen Joy, with light shows by Little Princess 109, the concerts ran May 15–18, 1969. Conklin’s surrealist vision explodes in a cascade of melting forms, vibrant color, and sun-drenched dreamscapes, encapsulating the acid rock aesthetic and the energy of the late-60s Bay Area music scene. His use of morphing hands and searing color waves evoke a hallucinatory trance that pairs perfectly with Santana’s Latin-infused psychedelia and The Youngbloods’ mellow groove. Commissioned by Bill Graham Presents, this is BG #124 in the Fillmore poster...

Beautiful 1968 psychedelic poster created by Lee Conklin for the Yardbirds, It's a beautiful day and Cecil Taylor concert. Lee Conklin is an artist best k...

Beautiful 1969 psychedelic poster created by Lee Conklin for It's a Beautiful Day and the blues-rock ephemeral Aum at the Fillmore West. Lee Conklin is an artist best known for his psychedelic posters from the late 1960s and particularly for his iconic cover for Santana's first album. At the time, photography was the basis of advertising, while psychedelic graphics were done by hand and were mostly based on an illustration concept. The posters of this movement claim a new aesthetic: the flashy and warm colors, the shapes and moving typography and the density of the motif that invades the space translate the psychedelic vision, often associated with the taking of substances such as LSD. Music - Psychedelic - United States Fillmore West - Bill Graham Tea Lautrec Litho...