Alton Kelley
Alton Kelley (born June 17, 1940, June 1, 2008) was an American artist best known for his psychedelic art, particularly concert posters and record covers of the sixties. He created Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, Victory Moscoso, and Wes Welker's Berkeley Bonaparte Distribution Agency.
With Stanley Mouse, he created the wings and beetles on all Journey covers, as well as the skull and roses for the Grateful Dead. Kelley's art has also been published on the 1971 album The Grateful Dead, featuring the black skeleton illustrated by Edmund Sullivan, which originally appeared in the nineteenth-century edition of Omar Khayyám.
In 1995, to raise money for the Jack Kerouac Foundation, he designed and published a limited edition of posters with an artist's image.
On June 1, 2008, at the age of 67, he died of a long illness. Authoritative control (person):
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