1969–Yasgur’s Farm-Woodstock Music and Art Fair Original Poster-50 YEARS TREASURED & ICONIC! PAE Graded Excellent '79'

closed on Friday, July 19, 2019

Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$1,320.00
Starting bid: $1.00

What a perfect way to celebrate the 50 year anniversary of Woodstock! Excitement is building as the year moves closer to August and by all major media accounts this event is set to be even larger and more impressive than our most optimistic expectations. Read more in our recent blog dated 4/9/19 about this historic news!

 

The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival is legendary. It represented the peak of the 1960's music scene. In many ways it also signified the end of the era. The poster for the event is iconic and deserves a place in every collection! The Original First Printing of this issue like this one here can be easily identified by a small piece of red extending from the second arch inside the white area of the letter "M" in Music (see close up photo).

 

Woodstock was a notorious Grateful Dead performance. They were a band that rarely came through when faced with great expectation and hype. At Woodstock they had to play during the rain and were getting shocked by a poorly grounded set up. As a result Bob Weir was having a bad trip. It did not go well for the band that night. However the performances of many others including Jimi Hendrix CSNY The Band and Janis Joplin have become permanently etched in stone as some of the finest live sets ever! 

 

Poster – Woodstock Music and Art Fair Yasgur’s Farm

Grade – PAE Excellent 79

Bands/Bill – Joan Baez Crosby Stills and Nash Jefferson Airplane Hendrix Santana Ten Years After The Who The Band Iron Butterfly Mountain Arlo Guthrie Richie Havens Canned Heat Creedence Clearwater Grateful Dead Janis Joplin

Venue – Yasgur’s Farm

City – White Lake NY

Date – 8/15-17/69

Dimensions – 24” x 36 25/32”

Printing – OP-1 Original Pre-Concert First Printing

Artist – Arnold Skolnick

Series/Promoter – Michael Lang and others

Paper Type – Thin glossy

Condition Details - 100% Original with no restoration. Edge creases and wear on right and left edges major creasing and handling on bottom left tiny nick right bottom edge. View the detailed high res photo of this lot. Click on the thumbnail photo to see an enlarged photo. Click a second time on the magnifying glass in the upper right corner of the enlarged photo. A super high res image with every millimeter will now be clearly displayed. For a personalized eyewitness examination call 410-464-6180 11:00 am to 6:00pm eastern.

 

Note: This oversized poster will be rolled and shipped without our standard archival holder. Shipping will be calculated accordingly.

 

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