Can You Pass the Acid Test?; The Fugs, Allen Ginsberg, Merry Pranksters, Roys, The Grateful Dead

Can You Pass the Acid Test?; The Fugs, Allen Ginsberg, Merry Pranksters, Roys, The Grateful Dead

1965

Paul Foster, Can You Pass the Acid Test?; The Fugs, Allen Ginsberg, Merry Pranksters, Roys, The Grateful Dead, 1965
Denver Art Museum Collection: Partial gift of David and Sheryl Tippit and partial purchase with Marion G. Hendrie Fund, Florence & Ralph Burgess Trust, and other Denver Art Museum funds, 2009.540
Photograph courtesy of the Denver Art Museum

Inventory number: Art of Rock 2.4

Designer
Paul Foster, American, 1934-2003
Country
United States
Object
poster
Medium
Offset lithograph
Dimensions
height: 17 in, 43.1800 cm; width: 11 in, 27.9400 cm
Inscription
Verso, lower right: This original poster belonged to the Kesey family signed Stephanie Kesey, June Kesey. I acquired this rare poster from Kesey family during a visit to the Kesey's Oregon house during the 1980s. David Tippet See image in media tab for more detailed inscription.
Credit Line
Partial gift of David and Sheryl Tippit and partial purchase with Marion G. Hendrie Fund, Florence & Ralph Burgess Trust, and other Denver Art Museum funds
Department
Architecture and Design
Collection
Architecture and Design
Accession Number
2009.540
Known Provenance
Partially gifted and partially purchased 2008 from David and Sheryl Tippit, Boulder, Colorado by the Denver Art Museum.
Exhibition History
  • "The Psychedelic Experience: Rock Posters from the San Francisco Bay Area, 1965-71," Denver Art Museum, 3/21/2009 - 7/26/2009
  • “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia” —Walker Art Center, 10/23/2015 – 2/28/2016
  • Cranbrook Art Museum, 6/18/2016 – 10/9/2016
  • University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2/8/2017 – 5/21/2017

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