Bob Schnepf

Bob Schnepf was one of the primary artists to use his talents towards the burgeoning rock-concert poster type, most famously adding to the Family members Dog’s landmark “numbered series.” After graduating from New York’s SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL of Industrial Artwork in 1954, Schnepf embarked on the tour of responsibility being a U.S. Navy photographer, time for New York to review at Cooper Union Artwork School. Upon getting his level in 1961, he relocated towards the Bay Region, where he received his B.F.A. through the San Francisco Artwork Institute; a season in Europe implemented, and he came back towards the States to stay right into a cabin in the outer Marin State region. By 1965 Schnepf was immersed in the Bay Area’s rising counterculture, creating countless psychedelic drawings, illustrations, and post credit cards for observed underground publications like the S.F. Oracle, the East Community Other, as well as the Berkeley Barb. He also added to Timothy Leary’s The Politics of Ecstasy. With time, Schnepf considered creating posters, creating not merely for local rock and roll displays but also ballets, shops, and other occasions. An acclaimed piece commemorating the summertime of Appreciate brought his function towards the attention from the Family members Dog’s Chet Helms, and between 1967 and 1968, Schnepf was commissioned to produce seven posters for the collective’s famous concerts in the Avalon Ballroom; the exposure also brought the designer offers to create additional posters, record overcoats, and comic books. After spending a 12 months on religious hiatus as the artwork director from the Krishna Yoga exercise Community and Back again to Godhead magazine, from the ’70s, Schnepf came back to commercial artwork, rediscovering the airbrush and honing a photo-real design which he put on t-shirts, book overcoats, murals, album addresses, as well as musical devices. As usually, he continuing creating fresh posters aswell. During the past due ’70s, Schnepf teamed with Savoy Studio room to make a group of innovative art-glass tasks, so when the studio room relocated to Portland, OR in 1986 he adopted. Using the resurgence of general public desire for the rock and roll posters from the psychedelic period, his classic parts were the main topic of significant attention, with styles reprinted in magazines and books just like the Art of Rock and roll, A Concise Background of Posters, THE PRESENT DAY Poster, From Frisco with Appreciate and Graphis. Furthermore to pieces within major series spanning three continents, Schnepf was also among the few ’60s-period figures highlighted in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s traveling display exploring the annals from the poster type. He was also the only real musician of his era represented on the grand reopening display from the Palace from the Legion of Honor.