Original 1st printing 13&1/8 x 18&5/8" concert/event poster for the Haight-Ashbury Festival, a benefit for the Haight-Ashbury Children's Center, held at the Golden Gate Park Panhandle in San Francisco, CA from 5/24-25/1969. Poster lists appearances by Country Joe McDonald, the Afro-Cubanos, Pipe Joint Compound, Johnny Sunshine, the Pitschell Players and many more. Art by (and SIGNED and dated 12/28/69 in black flair pen by) Wes Wilson, image is featured in the Art of Rock book on page 206 (plate 2.243). Medium-thick flat vellum stock poster is in BEAUTIFUL mint/near mint to near mint (A/A- to A-) condition; an UNBEATABLE crisp/sharp example of this original 1969 Wes Wilson poster with a VERY cool 1960's-era dated signature (from the same year as the event!). KILLER!!!
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