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Sale 1096 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
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Nov 11, 2022
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Nov 21, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$150 - 300

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[MUSIC] -- [POSTERS]. MOSCOSO, Victor, artist. The Family Dog Presents the Doors and the Miller Blues Band. San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1967.


FD 64-1. 14 x 20 in. poster promoting various artists performing at the Avalon Ballroom (excellent condition). 

Family Dog Productions was founded in 1966. Chet Helms, Family Dog's most notable promoter, began commissioning posters to advertise concerts primarily held at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom beginning in 1966. The highly decorative posters, which feature vibrant, psychedelic graphics and references to hippie culture became so popular that they were soon produced and sold for profit.  Family Dog Productions' core group of artists came to be known as the "San Francisco Five," and included Stanley Mouse, Wes Wilson, Rick Griffin, Alton Kelly, and Victor Moscoso. 

As Family Dog's stint at the Avalon began to wind down in 1968, the budget for promotion was reduced. The promoters started utilizing black and white imagery for the posters, and as a result, the final posters in the Family Dog Avalon Ballroom series relied primarily on photographic imagery.  


Property from the Collection of Ted L. Simmons, St. Louis, Missouri

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

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