The Artists

The poster makers of the San Francisco psychedelic era. We begin with the “Big Five” — the artists who, between 1966 and 1968, invented the visual language of the scene — and grow the roster as the archive fills in.

Alton Kelley (June 17, 1940 – June 1, 2008) was born in Houlton, Maine, and raised in Connecticut, where he worked as a welder and helicopter mechanic, raced mo

Bob Masse is a Canadian (Vancouver, British Columbia) psychedelic poster artist active since the 1960s — among the foremost figures of the Pacific Northwest and

Bonnie MacLean (December 28, 1939 – February 4, 2020) was an American artist who became one of the few prominent women in the male-dominated San Francisco psych

Clifford Charles Seeley

Clifford Charles Seeley (sometimes rendered "Seely") is the credited artist of BG-69, the Bill Graham Fillmore Auditorium poster for the six-night Jefferson Air

David Singer (b.

Don Ryder (Don T.

George Hunter (b.

Gregory Rodman "Greg" Irons (September 29, 1947 – November 14, 1984) was born in Philadelphia and was largely self-taught, citing early MAD paperbacks as a form

Heinrich Kley (April 15, 1863, Karlsruhe – February 8, 1945, Munich) was a German illustrator, painter, and caricaturist — NOT a 1960s poster maker.

Herb Greene (April 3, 1942 – March 3, 2025) was one of the defining photographers of the San Francisco rock scene, and his connection to the poster catalog is a

Lee Conklin (born July 24, 1941, in New Jersey) became Bill Graham's principal poster artist from the summer of 1968 into 1969 — the bridge figure between the f

Michael Ferguson

Michael (Mike) Ferguson (birth date not documented; died 1979) was the pianist and an original member of The Charlatans, formed in San Francisco in mid-1964.

Richard Alden “Rick” Griffin (June 18, 1944 – August 18, 1991) came of age in Southern California’s booming early-’60s surf culture.

Stanley George Miller — known as Stanley Mouse — was born October 10, 1940, in Fresno, California, but raised in Detroit, where his eye was forged on the Midwes

Tom Wilkes (July 30, 1939, Long Beach, CA – June 28, 2009, Pioneertown, CA) was an American graphic designer and art director, one of the defining visual hands

Victor Moscoso was born July 28, 1936, in Vilaboa, in the Culleredo municipality of Galicia, Spain, near A Coruña.

Robert Wesley “Wes” Wilson (July 15, 1937 – January 24, 2020) was born in Sacramento and came to poster art sideways — not through formal training but through a

Biographical detail is undocumented.