Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

114 c   (BLACK PANTHERS.) Olive, Bill; artist. Happy Birthday, Huey P. Newton ‘69. Screen-printed poster on thick paper, 35 x 23 inches; minimal wear. [Los Angeles?], 1969? [1,200/1,800] Featuring a portrait of Newton in black and white surrounded by a neon red and yellow sunburst, with the Black Panther logo in the title. Not much is generally known about the artist, Bill Olive, who did a handful of other notable psychedelic posters during this period. However, if his LinkedIn profile is to be believed, he was raised in England, was employed as a silk screen printer at Earl Newman Posters in Los Angeles from January 1968 to April 1970, then returned to England and moved on to other ventures.