Schiller, David (sold)

A striking and thoroughly far-out 1967 pictorial map of San Francisco. This engaging view, screen-printed in red, black, and metallic gold, captures the city during the Summer of Love, with particular reference to the music that epitomized that iconic year. (more details)

Rare, likely one-of-a-kind erroneous proof of this large, attractive and thoroughly far-out 1967 pictorial map of San Francisco. This engaging and exciting view, screen-printed in red, black, and metallic gold, captures the ideal of city in the midst of the Summer of Love, with particular reference to the music that epitomized the year. This example appears to be a unique survival. The print was executed in three colors. The red and the gold, printed first, are registered properly with each other. The black image, added last, has been printed upside-down in relation to the other colors. The error suggests that this example was a test proof; its survival is a testament to the added psychedelic effect presented by the mismatched colors. The poster has four neat tack-holes, indicating that it was put on the wall, and enjoyed for many years despite (or indeed due to) the errors in its execution.

The city’s hilly layout is ludicrously exaggerated, presenting the viewer with a rambunctious pile of iconic references and insider’s jokes springing up from the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, topped with a ‘Love’ Banner. The image is richly informed with an insider’s knowledge of the scene, providing the viewer with a wealth of detail. Sausalito, in the foreground, features hillside meadows and a ‘Hippy Summer Camp.’ The bucolic scene ends abruptly with a teeming crowd of pedestrians and buses filling the Golden Gate Bridge (though it is not clear whether this horde is entering or leaving the city.) (more details)

A striking and thoroughly far-out 1967 pictorial map of San Francisco. This engaging view, screen-printed in red, black, and metallic gold, captures the city during the Summer of Love, with particular reference to the music that epitomized that iconic year. (more details)

This is David Schiller and Jim Michaelson's (Sparta Graphics) 1967 view map of New York City. It is one of only 3 city-views produced in this style, the others being San Francisco and London. It is also the only view in this series printed in fluorescent ink for blacklight viewing. These maps remain iconic examples of 1960s 'Filmore' design. (more details)

Rare 1968 pictorial map of California, screen-printed on linen. This large and exceptionally groovy cartoon map depicts hippie-era California with sharp wit and a scenester's savvy. San Francisco and Los Angeles are disproportionately large, as are the mountains along California's eastern border. The sequoias of the north and palm trees of the south evoke the climatological variation of the state. Political variations are also alluded to: while San Francisco sports banners reading 'LOVE' and 'HAIGHT ASHBURY LOVES YOU,' Sacramento's capitol building is decorated with a traffic sign reading 'FAR RIGHT ONLY' while a billboard reads 'PAVE VIET-NAM.' Fishing and hiking scenes dominate the north, homey farms grace the middle of the state, while Southern California is dominated by burger joints, traffic-jammed highways, and smog alerts. The coastline is marked with naval bases and lots of beaches: Redondo, Manhattan, Topanga, and 'San Gregorio Nudist Beach: No Peeking.' (more details)