About the artist

Rolly Crump was an Animator and Theme Park Designer for the Walt Disney Company from 1952-1970, and returned to the company several more times until he retired in 1996. You may know Rolly as a Disney legend, but he has a prolific body of fine art that should be seen alongside other great mid-century California artists. His body of work, characterized by a bold graphic style and whimsical commentary, has the ability to infuse each image or subject with life and a story to make you smile.

One of his first posters advertised The Unicorn, a folk music club and coffee hangout on the Sunset Strip, a sort of fun zone outside of Los Angeles city limits filled with bars and nightclubs that would soon transition from folk music to psychedelia. “I loved that scene, the people, the coffee houses, the cannabis, the whole underground feeling,” Rolly told Cannatechtoday. “It helped me develop a style, a way of thinking, looking for things that were different.” The Unicorn was situated between what would become LA’s preeminent 60’s discotheque Whiskey a Go Go, and the Hamburger Hamlet, billed as “a restaurant for actors”.

There is no more fitting tribute to the life of Roland Fargo Crump than to present a collection of his Posters from the 50’s, 60’s & 70’s. Lovingly collected by his son Chris, these posters are being displayed all together for the first time.