Stanley Mouse, Hand Signed Screen Print, Skeleton And Roses, Grateful Dead

Stanley Mouse, Hand Signed Screen Print, Skeleton And Roses, Grateful Dead. Art by Stanley Mouse, 1998 Original Illustration by Edmund Sullivan.

Size: 22 x 30 Inches. Excellent , very minor dent on right edge (see photos).

Hand Printed & Hand-Signed by the artist, Stanley Mouse. The first time this image hit the scene was on an Avalon Ballroom concert poster in 1967, when the Dead were just another San Francisco rock music band. Mouse and Kelley would spend their days in the back rooms of the San Francisco library digging through art books.

When Kelley saw Edmund J. Sullivan's illustration of the Skeleton in the Rubaiyat, he said: This has Grateful Dead all over it. The band related so well to the poster art that they then used it for an album cover, and eventually made it their logo. The Skeleton & Roses is one of the most widely recognized rock icons ever. Mouse enhanced the drawing in 1989 by adding more color which he did again in 1998 to produce this version.

The Skeleton And Roses motif was inspired by Edmund Sullivan's illustration from Omar Khayam's Rubaiyat, and adopted by such artists as Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley. The Sullivan piece is entitled "The Skeleton" and was originally made to illustrate the 26th quatrain: XXVI. Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

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