Title: It's a Beautiful Day
Label: Columbia
Catalog: CS 9768
Year: 1969
Genre: psych
Design: Globe Propaganda (George Hunter)
Cover art: Kent Hollister
Grade: ***** star
So here's another album cover that just exudes that unique '60s vibe. This wasn't the only album cover that George Hunter and his Global Propaganda design company were responsible for (Quicksilver Messenger Service's "Happy Trails" and "Shady Grove", Canned Heat's "Hallelujah" and Danny O'Keefe's "O'Keefe" are just a couple. That said, this is the best of the lot.
Painted by the late Leslie "Kent" Hollister, the design was copied from American impressionist Charles Courtney Curran's 1912 painting entitled Woman on the Top of a Mountain.
Perhaps because it harkens back to a less complicated time, there's just something pleasant and calming about the cover.
So here's another album cover that just exudes that unique '60s vibe. This wasn't the only album cover that George Hunter and his Global Propaganda design company were responsible for (Quicksilver Messenger Service's "Happy Trails" and "Shady Grove", Canned Heat's "Hallelujah" and Danny O'Keefe's "O'Keefe" are just a couple. That said, this is the best of the lot. Painted by the late Leslie "Kent" Hollister, the design was copied from American impressionist Charles Courtney Curran's 1912 painting entitled Woman on the Top of a Mountain.Perhaps because it harkens back to a less complicated time, there's just something pleasant and calming about the cover.
I own Hollisters painting of Shady Grove for Quicksilver Messenger Service
ReplyDeleteand would like to sell it. Anyone interested contact billbrachphoto@gmail.com