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Stanley Mouse is an American artist best known for his psychedelic, Art Nouveau-influenced concert posters created for the Grateful Dead. View Stanley Mouse’s artworks on artnet.
He often collaborated with the late Alton Kelly, and together they created iconic works, including Grateful Dead’s 1966 Avalon Ballroom concert poster skeleton and roses, as well as countless psychedelic concert posters spanning decades.
7 sie 2024 · The posters he made for the Grateful Dead shows would become totems of psychedelic rock, marking a new era in art history. Mouse drew posters for other bands coming out of the Haight Ashbury scene. He recounts loitering backstage at Jefferson Airplane shows.
Stanley George Miller (born October 10, 1940), better known as Mouse or Stanley Mouse, is an American artist who is notable for his 1960s psychedelic rock concert poster designs and album covers for the Grateful Dead, Journey, and other bands.
Two of their most famous images, one featuring ZigZag cigarette rolling papers and another, the Grateful Dead skeleton and roses motif, became symbols of a generation. Kelley and Mouse were innovators of the most important art movement of the latter part of the twentieth century.
Mouse and Kelley found a black and white version of this skeleton and roses image while digging through library books. “We were fishing in the past, bringing up old stuff that should be seen again.”
11 maj 2024 · They are credited with creating the iconic skeleton and roses image that became the Grateful Dead's signature iconography. They also created Journey's Wings and Beetles, which appeared on their LP covers from 1977 to 1980.
