Renaissance Pleasure Faire / May 6-7 13-14 (screenprinted poster)
Malibu: Paramount Ranch, 1967. Original promotional poster, measuring 35 x 22.5 inches, screenprinted in orange and black on a yellow ground.
Striking promotional poster designed by Earl Newman for the 1967 Renaissance Pleasure Faire in Malibu, a fundraiser for listener-sponsored radio station KPFK. The Renaissance Pleasure Faires were some of the first Renaissance fairs in the United States, attracting a countercultural crowd: “Amid the Vietnam War, inhabiting a lost era of courtly love and gentler combat had tremendous appeal, and the fair became a kind of early, wimpled Woodstock" (New York Times). Newman's design depicts a jester dancing with a barefoot maiden, both shaded with a harlequin pattern. A prolific California printmaker for more than half a century, Newman is best known for his iconic images of folk and jazz musicians, epitomized by his poster series for the Monterey Jazz Festival. A fine example of Newman's early work.
Price: $600.00