The Bahr Gallery is featuring vintage Grateful Dead posters in an exhibition from October 4 through January 3, 2026. The gallery is open Friday and Saturday from 1:30-5:30pm and by appointment. Admission to the Exhibition is free.
Highlights of the Exhibition include a rare 1971 poster advertising the band playing at the Scranton PA Catholic Youth Center, a large 1969 Aztec Stadium poster, a first edition “Aoxomoxoa,” by Rick Griffin, the Dead paired with Miles Davis in 1970, and a beautiful, hardly seen poster promoting the band at the Alfond Arena in Orono Maine, from 1983. More than 40 works in total comprise the Exhibition and 14 works have never been shown at the Bahr Gallery before.
Virtually all pieces are first editions, and are accompanied with meticulous background and history, placing each piece in context. Much of this art currently hangs in the Smithsonian, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, the Louvre, and other leading museums and institutions around the world.
“We are curating the visual experience for admirers of this art, the music, and its special time in history,” said gallery owner and curator Ted Bahr. “While the Grateful Dead was not nearly as widely popular in the sixties as they would later become, their active participation in the San Francisco rock concert scene left a large visual legacy of posters advertising their appearances – many of which are rarely seen.”