What this page is: our shelf card for one book. Read our take below, then tap Buy Now.
California Dreams
The first comprehensive collection of work by Stanley Mouse, one of the pioneering artists of psychedelic poster art in the late 1960s. Across more than five decades it gathers posters, album covers, T-shirt designs and later fine-art paintings: about 240 pieces, many unpublished before, including early versions of his best-known images.
Mouse is best known for the posters and album covers he made, often with Alton Kelley, during San Francisco's counterculture years and into the 1970s, work that still stands for the color and experimental spirit of that time. The book also reaches back to his Detroit hot-rod years and forward into landscapes and figurative painting.
We already carried this on our shelves. After Mouse Studios reached out on Instagram, we gave it its own page and pinned it on the Literary Atlas at the Haight-Ashbury house where Mouse and Kelley lived and made posters in 1966–67. Soft Skull Press published it in 2015; the text is by Blair Jackson.
On the Atlas: 715 Ashbury Street in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco →
What to do: if you love San Francisco poster art, the Grateful Dead visual world, or Mouse and Kelley's work, tap Buy Now.
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