Arnold Skolnick, Whose Poster Embodied Woodstock, Dies at 85
Arnold Skolnick, who with only a few days to work designed what became one of the most familiar pop-culture images of its time, the poster for the original Woodstock music festival in 1969, died on June 15 in Amherst, Mass. He was 85.
His son Alexander Skolnick said the cause was respiratory failure.
Mr. Skolnick’s poster design was a model of simplicity that both conveyed information about the festival — when and where it was, who was performing — and caught the sensibility of the moment. With an attention-getting red background, it had as its dominant image the neck of a guitar with a white bird perched on it. “3 Days of Peace & Music,” the big type read.
Mr. Skolnick was 32 and doing freelance work for advertising agencies and other clients — “more ‘Mad Men’ than ‘Easy Rider,’” as The Washington Post described him 50 years later — when he got a call from John Morris, the production coordinator for the festival. Mr. Skolnick told The Daily Hampshire Gazette of Northampton, Mass., in 2008 that an architect friend who was doing work on a hotel in the Virgin Islands that attracted a lot of rock stars knew Mr. Morris and made the connection.
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R-I-P Mr. Skolnick ☮️ ✌️
