THE WHO TOMMY RARE LITHOGRAPH PRINT S/N RECORD ART POSTER LIMITED 200 MCINNERNY
Item History & Price
THE WHO: TOMMYby RECORD ARTSIGNED, NUMBERED and LIMITED Signed in PencilClass: Poster Technique: LITHOGRAPHProduced in 1990 by The WHO and distributed by Record Art. Obtained from the original distributor. Based on the original artwork for the album "TOMMY". Comes with a certificate of authenticity. Printed on musuem semi-gloss heavy print stock.- mounted on a light weight acid-free foam boardArt by Michael McInnerney, who said of the design "I have this memory snapshot, back in '...68, sitting in Pete T's kitchen, showing him the finished artwork for the Tommy cover and trying to find a way of bringing God into the cover copy. The Indian word for God is 'Avatar' and, for us, his name was Meher Baba and the cover credit list was where we put him. Somehow, giving God a job description on the album, juxtaposing the ordinary with the extraordinary, seemed appropriate to the project. It was a contrast that wove its way throughout the Opera.The work took two to three months to complete (According to Pete T. - 'Mike worked constantly under a single ordinary lightbulb. He entertained and pontificated from his drawing board at one side of the room, stopping only to eat...Behind him on the wall was a picture of the young, craggy-looking Meher Baba...As an illustrator, he was constantly up against impossible deadlines, and in the case of Tommy, he worked indefatigably to produce the cover art even though the actual album completion was continually delayed by technical and financial problems.'). During that time, I had the feeling that I was working on a special project. "
As Townshend put it - "The poetic mysticism of his work, its simplicity and bleakness, mirrored the music precisely. As ever, Mike's response was explosively positive."
As Townshend put it - "The poetic mysticism of his work, its simplicity and bleakness, mirrored the music precisely. As ever, Mike's response was explosively positive."
