Jerry Garcia: The Collected Artwork

Jerry Garcia: The Collected Artwork is a profusely illustrated showcase of, and appreciation for, Jerry's art, life, and creative spirit. Opening with a foreword by Mickey Hart, the collection features more than 100 full-color reproductions of his paintings, drawings, and prints.

This historic presentation of Jerry's distinguished body of work (which includes pen and inks, acrylics, watercolors, and digital media) is at once a stunning art book in an accessible, coffee-table format and an intimate and playful celebration of his creativity featuring observations, anecdotes, and remembrances by key cultural figures such as Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Herbert Gold, Baron Wolman, Jon Carroll, Paul Pena, Victor Moscoso, Carlos Santana, Donna Jean Godchaux-Mackay, Grace Slick, Jim Donaldson, F. Lanier Graham, Andy Leonard, Tom Turner and members of the Garcia and Grateful Dead families.

Jerry Garcia: The Collected Artwork (Limited Edition)

This special, limited edition version is incased in a beautifully designed cloth clamshell box that includes an expanded version of the book, one of six randomly selected limited edition prints of 500 each, measuring 11" x 17", and companion CD featuring music covering Jerry's entire career.

In addition to the 250 full-color illustrations featured in the non-limited edition, this version contains six additional fold-out pages of photographs. There will only be 2,500 of these available, and they will never be reprinted.

Jerry Garcia: The Collected Artwork
Limited Edition CD

1. On The Road Again (Live), 1964, Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
2. Cream Puff War, 1967, Grateful Dead
3. Dark Star (Live), 1969, Grateful Dead
4. Uncle John's Band (Live), 1972, Grateful Dead
5. Candyman, 1970, Grateful Dead
6. Mission In The Rain, 1975, Jerry Garcia
7. Jackaroe (Live), 1977, Grateful Dead
8. The Wheel (Live), 1982, Grateful Dead*
9. Waiting For A Miracle (Live), 1989, Jerry Garcia Band
10. Scarlet Begonias> Fire On The Mountain (Live), 1990, Grateful Dead
11. Whisky In The Jar, 1994, Jerry Garcia and David Grisman
*Previously unreleased recording from 9/9/82

Jerry Garcia: The Collected Artwork (Limited Edition)


This special, limited edition version is incased in a beautifully designed cloth clamshell box that includes an expanded version of the book, one of six randomly selected limited edition prints of 500 each, measuring 11" x 17", and companion CD featuring music covering Jerry's entire career.

In addition to the 250 full-color illustrations featured in the non-limited edition, this version contains six additional fold-out pages of photographs. There will only be 2,500 of these available, and they will never be reprinted.

Jerry Garcia: The Collected Artwork by Jerry Garcia
Edited by April Higashi Foreword by Mickey Hart

Published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of his death, this stunning art book is an intimate and playful celebration of the enduring legacy and creative genius that was Jerry Garcia.

Edited by April Higashi, art director and curator of the Jerry Garcia Estate LLC, each chapter opens with a commentary on the art presented in the context of Jerry's life and times. Observations, anecdotes, and remembrances by key cultural figures as well as those closest to Jerry are illustrated by candid photographs and illuminate the many facets of both the artist and the man.

Opening with a foreword by Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart, this historic presentation of Jerry's distinguished body of work (which includes pen-and-inks, acrylics, watercolors, gouache, and digital media) is a profusely illustrated showcase of and appreciation for his art, life, and creative spirit.

Highlights

—More than 225 full-color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations.
—More than 150 full-color reproductions of Jerry's paintings, drawings, and prints.
—Observations, anecdotes, and remembrances by key cultural figures such as Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Herbert Gold, Baron Wolman, Jon Carroll, Paul Pena, Victor Moscoso, Carlos Santana, Donna Jean Godchaux-Mackay, Grace Slick, Jim Donaldson, F. Lanier Graham, Andy Leonard, Tom Turner and members of the Garcia and Grateful Dead families.

Limited Edition Highlights

—Numbered Limited Edition
—Edition limited to 2,500 copies
—250 full-color illustrations
—Six additional gatefolds
—Hardcover edition housed in an elegant cloth clamshell box.
—Encased in a cloth-wrapped clamshell box with foil stamping and a hand-tipped image on the front.
—Jerry Garcia Band CD that includes previously unreleased tracks
—Limited and numbered art print from the Jerry Garcia Estate LLC (1 of 5)


"Jerry Garcia wasn't a little fish in a little fishbowl: he was the captain of multidimensional navigating. Opening this book, people will have an opportunity to see his multifaceted creativity, how he utilized his energy in many beautiful ways, not just pickin' the guitar...In any case I have no doubt that whoever sees this book is going to get a lot of joy...Fifteen years from now, they'll say 'Hey, you know, and the guy could paint, too, man. He really could paint.'" —Carlos Santana

"There was Jerry the artist: ever-creative, ever creating. More of us knew the art better than we knew the man. We danced and tripped to his music, smiled as we wrapped our necks with his colorful ties, brought his illustrations into the intimacy of our own rooms. Now Jerry the man is gone and only his art remains. And yet, in the end, aren't they one in the same, the artist and his art? And yet, in and through his art, isn't he, too, still with us?" —Baron Wolman

"He is an artist who had nothing to prove; he drew because he loved to draw, and it shows." —April Higashi