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For the category of fair use album cover images by Griffin, see Category:Album covers by Rick Griffin. Pages in category "Albums with cover art by Rick Griffin" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Richard Alden "Rick" Griffin (June 18, 1944 – August 18, 1991) was an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. He was a key figure in the underground comix movement as a fouding member of the Zap Comix collective.
For articles on albums with cover art by Griffin, see Category:Albums with cover art by Rick Griffin Media in category "Album covers by Rick Griffin" The following 7 files are in this category, out of 7 total.
The title of the album is a palindrome created by cover artist Rick Griffin and lyricist Robert Hunter. According to Living with the Dead, the audio memoir of band manager Rock Scully, the title is pronounced "ox-oh-mox-oh-ah". [12]
The cover art is darkly themed, with red, Old English Gothic script and a black skeleton graphic against a black background. The metallized skeleton (less distinct on some printings) is an air-brushed image by Rick Griffin, who had created several previous album covers for the band. The back cover features the rear view of the skeleton, with ...
This is represented in the album cover artwork, designed by San Francisco counterculture artist and band associate Rick Griffin. It has an Earth tone and simple graphics including a woodcut-derived figure of a harvest-reaping man with a wheat bundle and scythe, and a field crow which was extracted from the card game Rook (and never credited). [16]
The black-and-white portion of the album art was a collage made by Gary Burden, who planned to enlist Rick Griffin to paint a final version of the album art, but Dunhill Records declined to pay for the painting and so used Burden's black-and-white prototype. [4]
The self-titled album eventually came out in May 1968, housed in a sleeve whose front cover was designed by famed San Francisco poster artist Rick Griffin, with back cover photographs by Jim Marshall. [2] It charted at #63 on Billboard that summer as the group continued to play shows across the country, with a specific preference for the Bay Area.