Robert Wesley Wilson was an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters.
14 Facts About Wes Wilson
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Wes Wilson's style was heavily influenced by the Art Nouveau movement.
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Robert Wesley Wilson was born on July 15,1937, in Sacramento, California.
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Wes Wilson was raised in rural northern California by his mother.
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Wes Wilson had a stint in the military after graduating high school.
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Wes Wilson amicably stopped working with Helms in the 1960s, with Wilson feeling "stifled" by the promoter saying his art was "too far out" at the time.
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Several months later, Wes Wilson had begun working exclusively for Graham, an arrangement which ended in 1967 over a contract dispute.
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Wes Wilson was covered in the 1985 art book The Art of Rock, creating its original cover as well.
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Wes Wilson was later written about in the Art of Engagement by Peter Selz.
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Wes Wilson continued working on posters as he grew older, and in 2019 he created poster art for the band Moonalice in Northern California.
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Wes Wilson was called the "founder of the hippie poster movement" by the Chicago Tribune.
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Wes Wilson was described as the most "widely known poster artist" in the United States at one point by The Daily Californian.
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Wes Wilson met his second wife, Eva, in San Francisco in the 1960s at the Wently apartment complex for artists.
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Wes Wilson died of cancer at his home in Leann, Missouri on January 24,2020.