Rock Art Collection
Peter Golding is also known for his unique collection of Rock and Roll Art – 'Inspirational Times'.
The collection had its beginnings at a “happening” in Hyde Park in 1967, when Golding picked up a hand-drawn poster from the ground, and has grown to be one of the most comprehensive collections of its kind. It includes drawings, studies, finished artwork and paintings. Golding was a major lender of items to the popular Tate Liverpool exhibition: ‘Summer of Love’, in 2005, which went on to important museums in Germany and Austria in 2006, and to its exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 2007.
The collection includes works by Nigel Waymouth, Michael English, Victor Moscoso, Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelly, and artworks commissioned for bands and performers such as: The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Quicksilver Messenger, The Cult, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, and Journey. Stanley Mouse’s painting, 'The Jester' (see photo, right), for the Grateful Dead is particularly well known, as is the late Alton Kelley’s ‘Rolling Thunder’: This Kelley painting of the Mouse-Kelley artwork for Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s LP, with its star studded line up which includes Jerry Garcia, Stephen Stills, Bob Weir and Grace Slick, stands at over 6ft 6 inches square and is possibly the largest rock and roll art painting by a major artist!
The collection includes extensive work by the late Rick Griffin, considered the ‘grand master’ of this art form. It includes his working portfolios, sketchbooks and paintings as a special spectrum of his unique artistic style, with the Grateful Dead being well represented as one of his most important clients. There are works from his student days through to his gospel period and his later paintings – covering three decades of his talented and renowned artistic journey.
Another feature of 'Inspirational Times' is its early San Francisco original poster printing plates for local bands and events, as well as an extensive collection of double uncut posters and plates for major venues and Family Dog promotions; created by the well known artists of the era. Together with the original artwork of an extensive group of press ads by Randy Tuten for Bill Graham’s events over many years, these items serve as a great visual history and spectrum of the famous bands and musical influences of this unique American counter culture.
A selection went to auction under the title 'The Peter Golding Collection of Rock & Roll Art' at Bonhams in New York on 14 May 2008, as a first showing of its kind with a preview tour of the United States in April.
The first publicised and curated exhibition for Inspirational Times was held in London in 2003 courtesy of Sotheby's Olympia. A celebrity crowd, including the Marquis of Bath, Jeff Beck, Noel Gallagher, and Jimmy Page attended the gala opening, and the evening and exhibition was extensively featured in the British press.
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