On the Bus (Ken Kesey's Magic Bus, at the San Francisco State Acid Test)
Artist
Gene Anthony
(American, born about 1932)
Date1966, printed 2008
Mediumchromogenic print
Dimensionsimage: 28.6 x 43.2 cm (11 1/4 x 17 in.)
sheet: 46 x 50.7 cm (18 1/8 x 19 15/16 in.)
sheet: 46 x 50.7 cm (18 1/8 x 19 15/16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Howard G. Davis, III A.K.A. David Davis
Object number2011.127
Label TextIn 1958 Kesey was a Stanford graduate student working as a night aide at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital. He also volunteered as a subject for a CIA-sponsored study of LSD, which was then legal. Kesey wove these experiences into his novel "One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest." Later he and a group of friends, “The Merry Pranksters,” crossed the country and back in an old school bus, a journey described in Tom Wolfe’s "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." The Pranksters toured the Bay Area in 1965-67 with mobile Acid Tests, promoting the possible benefits of hallucinogenic drugs.ProvenanceDavid DavisOn View
Not on viewGene Anthony
January 14, 1967, printed 2008
Gene Anthony
January 14, 1967