From the Collection of Dan Healy

Grateful Dead

One of the earliest official Grateful Dead shirts

Size: 60s L: 27.5’’L x 20’’W✱ — Excellent condition

An official t-shirt from 1967, around the time of the Dead’s earliest major performances.

Designed by the Hells Angel, Merry Prankster, and graphic artist Allan “Gut” Terk, a key figure in Califor💝nia counterculture in the 1960’s. Friends with Ken Kesey, he was the painter of the Pranksters’ “Further” bus i﷽n 1964 and designed the Acid Test Graduation posters. By 1967, through his work for the Dead, he was acclaimed in the Bay Area music scene for his t-shirt and poster art.