Victor Moscoso
- Introduction
- Victor Moscoso (born 1936 in Oleiros, Galicia, Spain) is a Spanish artist best known for producing psychedelic rock posters, advertisements, and underground comix in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s. He was the first of the rock poster artists of the 1960s era with formal academic training and experience. He was the first of the rock poster artists to use photographic collage in many of his posters.
- Wikidata
- Q7583727
- Introduction
- Studied at the Cooper Union and Yale under Josef Albers. In 1959 he relocated to San Francisco and attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where he later taught. From 1966 he begins producing posters for rock concerts in a 'psychedelic' style that incorporated intensely stylized lettering and images in vibrant colors. It is for this work that he his best known.
- Nationalities
- Spanish, American
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Graphic Artist, Poster Artist
- Name
- Victor Moscoso
- Ulan
- 500129202
Exhibitions
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From the Collection:
1960–1969 Mar 26, 2016–Mar 19, 2017
MoMA
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Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye
Nov 15, 2014–Jan 18, 2016
MoMA
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Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980
Dec 23, 2009–Jul 25, 2010
MoMA
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Architecture & Design: North Gallery Rotation 2
Dec 14, 2005–Apr 6, 2006
MoMA
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Architecture and Design: Inaugural Installation
Nov 20, 2004–Nov 7, 2005
MoMA
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Victor Moscoso has
9 exhibitionsonline.
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Victor Moscoso Junior Wells and His Chicago Blues Band 1966
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Victor Moscoso Quick Silver Messenger Service, Big Brother & The Holding Co., Country Joe & The Fish 1966
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Victor Moscoso The Miller Blues Band 1967
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Victor Moscoso Clean-In: Spring Mobilization, Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood 1967
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Victor Moscoso Quicksilver Messenger Service, Miller Blues Band, The Daily Flash 1967
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Victor Moscoso Quicksilver Messenger Service, John Lee Hooker, The Miller Blues Band 1967
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Victor Moscoso The Doors, Sparrow, Country Joe and the Fish 1967
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Victor Moscoso Moby Grape, The Charlatans 1967
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Victor Moscoso Sphynx Dance 1967
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Victor Moscoso, Eric Webber Siegel Schwall Band, Miller Blues Band 1967
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Victor Moscoso The Sparrow 1967
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Victor Moscoso The Young Bloods, The Seigal Schwall Band 1967
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Victor Moscoso, Lisa Bachelis Big Brother and the Holding Company 1967
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Victor Moscoso The Miller Blues Band, Lee Michaels, Congress of Wonders 1967
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Victor Moscoso The Miller Blues Band, The Doors, The Daily Flash 1967
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Victor Moscoso Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Miller Blues Band, The Other Half 1967
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Victor Moscoso Big Brother and the Holding Company 1967
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Victor Moscoso Hawaii Pop Rock Festival 1967
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Victor Moscoso Quicksilver Messenger Service, Mount Rushmore, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Blue Cheer 1967
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Victor Moscoso Sopwith Camel 1967
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Victor Moscoso The Blushing Peony 1967
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Victor Moscoso Poster Show 1967
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Victor Moscoso The Stockville Light Express Present: Death and Transfiguration: an Audio-Chromatic Environment 1967
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Victor Moscoso Blue Cheer, Lee Michaels, Clifton Chenier 1967
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Victor Moscoso, Raoul Ubac Otis Rush 1967
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Victor Moscoso Young Bloods, The Youngbloods, The Other Half, Mad River 1967
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Victor Moscoso The Chambers Brothers 1967
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Victor Moscoso The Wildflower 1967
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Victor Moscoso The Wildflower 1967
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Victor Moscoso The Wildflower 1967
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Victor Moscoso Levi's: Pants Made to A Different Vision 1972
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Victor Moscoso Victor Moscoso letterhead (Letter to Michael Sheehe) 1991
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