NYTimes obit for Alton Kelley
Mr. Kelley and his longtime collaborator, Stanley Mouse, combined sinuous Art Nouveau lettering and outré images plucked from sources near and far to create the visual equivalent of an acid trip. A 19th-century engraving from “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam†inspired a famous poster for a Grateful Dead concert at the Avalon Ballroom in 1966 … Read more