Pat Ryan (artist)
Pat Ryan is an American poster artist[1] and cartoonist. He is known for his 1970s poster art for albums, concerts, and parody.
Pat Ryan | |
|---|---|
| Education | Art Center School |
| Occupation | Poster artist |
| Years active | 1970s– |
| Website | pat-ryan-art |
Marie Thomas McNaughton of The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California, wrote that Ryan is "best known for: images of American Indians, historical paintings, Prairie Sun calendars. .... If Pat Ryan of Rohnert Park had not deconstructed and reconstructed the images and typography of the Old West, could sepia have become hip or the graphic image of the American Indian become dignified, colorful, and contemporary?"[2]
Early life and education
Ryan was raised on Long Island, New York.[3] He later moved to California and attended Art Center School in Los Angeles.[4]
Poster art
Ryan was one of the founders of the "Artista Gang" artist collective.[4][5]
Paul Liberatore of the Marin Independent Journal wrote that, "Ryan may best be remembered for the produce crate art he began creating in the '70s for fictional marijuana brands like Humboldt Honey, Super Skunk, Stupor Farms, and the ever-popular Muy Blastido."[4] He co-created the art with cartoonist Dave Sheridan, and worked with him at C.O.D. Graphix.[6]
Lincoln Cushing, author of Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, wrote that Ryan's posters are an example of art that was either a homage to, or a parody of, Chinese Communist Party propaganda posters that became "fodder ... for the U.S. counterculture".[7]
Comics
Ryan contributed to the four-issue Tales of the World Famous Drive Thru Bud.[8] He also contributed to the one-shot underground comic Tales from the Leather Nun, published in 1973.[6]
Bibliography
References
Notes
- Watts 2015.
- McNaughton 2011.
- Northeast Leaf 2020.
- Liberatore 2020.
- Hill 2016, p. 315.
- Sheridan 2018.
- Cushing 2007, p. 16.
- Fitzgerald Rodriguez 2015.
Sources
- "Cannabis Americana – Celebrating the weed-infused work of underground art icon Pat Ryan", Northeast Leaf, Seattle: New Leaf Publishing, December 2020
- Cushing, Lincoln (2007). "Revolutionary Chinese posters and their impact abroad". Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. ISBN 0-8118-5946-0. OCLC 86038498.
Another poster from [1978] by San Francisco Bay Area artist Pat Ryan illustrates how the genre was fodder for media in the U.S. counter-culture community by appropriating classic GPCR imagery and icons and transforming it to reflect local issues.
- Fitzgerald Rodriguez, Joe (January 24, 2015), "Get This: Lit Up, Inked Up, in Pages of Stoner Comix", SF Evergreen
- Hill, Sarah (2016). San Francisco and the long 60s. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 1628924209. OCLC 939718661.
- Liberatore, Paul (December 17, 2020), "The life and times of famed Marin rock poster artist", Marin Independent Journal, San Rafael, California
- McNaughton, Marie Thomas (May 22, 2011). "An art community's legacy: local artists captured moments in history, continue to influence". The Press Democrat. Santa Rosa, California.
- Sheridan, Dave (2018). Burstein, Mark (ed.). Life with Dealer McDope, the Leather Nun, and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Fantagraphics Underground. ISBN 168396120X.
- Watts, Katie (April 12, 2015). "Rock history to take center stage: Petaluma: Beatles and Stones photographs, poster art and music from the era featured in 6-week celebration". The Press Democrat. Santa Rosa, California.