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

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

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