1970s David Lance Goines Rare Hand Printed Poster by David Lance Goines LImited Edition for Coyote San Francisco

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The New York Times in his recent obit stated, David Lance Goines, Who Shaped the Counterculture Aesthetic.

IT HAS TO … Read more The New York Times in his recent obit stated, David Lance Goines, Who Shaped the Counterculture Aesthetic.

IT HAS TO BE SHIPPED FLAT BETWEEN TWO SHEETS OF MASONITE AND FOAM COR.

#63) QUEEN OF HEARTS BALL:

Edition of 1513 of which 300 copies are signed 1-300, 26 are signed A-Z as artist's proofs, and four sets are signed as progressives.

March 7, 1977 Five colors 14-3/4" x 24"

Client: Margot St. James, COYOTE, Angela Coppola, Coppola Creative Concepts, 54 Mint Street, San Francisco CA 94105. Telephone (415) 989-0222 A-Z: Artist's own use

(Communication Arts' CA77 Exhibition; The Art of Rock, Abbeville Press, New York, 1987) (facsimile)

Influence: Playing card


From the publication Berkeleyside:
David Lance Goines, a printmaker who came of age during the Free Speech Movement and whose fine arts posters became emblematic of numerous Berkeley institutions, including Chez Panisse. After making his first poster for Chez Panisse in 1972 — a now seminal design of a red-haired friend of Alice Waters holding a wine glass — the restaurant skyrocketed to fame. Goines’ posters became inseparable from the restaurant’s visual brand.

Over more than four decades, his illustrations have become both iconic and seemingly ubiquitous in the city, his trademark posters defining the many Berkeley institutions for which he designed: Acme Bread Company, Velo Bicycle, UC Berkeley, the city’s public library. His impact extended far beyond Berkeley: His half-century long career has left a distinctive mark in the history of graphic arts. Drawing inspiration from the German counterpart of the Art Noveau movement and the American Arts and Crafts movement, Goines blended these styles with the spirit of 1960s Berkeley to create his unique designs.

David Lance Goines wrote about this poster:
At one point it was briefly fashionable to be a hooker. Or maybe it was fashionable to pretend to be a hooker and dress like one but not actually be one. My recollection is a bit murky. Being a hooker, especially a street-corner hooker, is hard and dangerous work, and I can't imagine anyone actually doing it for fun. But, tastes differ, I guess. The dance thrown by coyote (Cast Off Your Old Tired Ethics) was originally to be called "The Hooker's Ball," and so I thought this concept of a playing card to be just oblique enough to pique the viewer. But when the coyote people saw the design, they decided to change the name of the dance to "The Queen of Hearts Ball," and that took a bit of the obliqueness out of it. The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-glay.* Really, they do.

SECOND PHOTO CREDIT Photo: Melati Citrawireja for the Berkeleyside

* Robert Burns (1759-1796) To a Mouse (1785) See less