Paul Revere and the Raiders
1968
Designer
Milton Glaser
Publisher
Columbia Records
DIMENSIONS
33 x 22 1/4 in. (83.8 x 56.5 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.2025.1485
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mirko Ilić
KEYWORDS
Entertainment, Music, Psychedelic
By the time Glaser designed this poster in 1968, the rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders, founded in Boise, Idaho, a decade earlier, was at the peak of its success. The design, with its stars-and-stripes lettering and grid of stars (the lead singer’s name was actually styled “Lindsay”) references the band’s patriotic name and the Revolutionary War-style uniforms of its members. But all this historicism is overlaid by the very contemporary language of Pop Art; Glaser describes the motifs in brilliant clashing colors and presents tiny portraits of the band members in the style of Andy Warhol’s silkscreen prints based on photographic images.
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