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Who gets credit for legendary Woodstock poster?
Arnold Skolnick designed the Woodstock poster.
The Promotional poster for the 1969 Woodstock Music
Greenwich Village artist Arnold Skolnick was spending the summer of '69 on Shelter Island when he got a call on a Thursday afternoon from the production coordinator for the upcoming Woodstock music festival.
A month before the event, the venue had shifted and the promoters wanted a new poster with a new logo, John Morris said. Could Skolnick come up with something by Monday?
What the...
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