Author: [Bohemian Club]. Bee, Lonie [1902 - 1995] - Artist; Ferguson, Ken - Author and Composer. Harris, Fred O. - Director
Title: ONCE A KNIGHT Low Jinks • Bohemian Grove • 1959
Description: [San Francisco]: [The Bohemian Club], 1959. 1st printing. SIGNED in the plate by Lonie Bee. White paper printed in dark & light pink, and black to recto. Red & black printing to verso. Broadsheet poster printed recto and verso. Large illustration by Bee of a knight & buxom lady fair. 22" x 16-1/2". Folded into quarters by a prior owner. Noticeable fold lines, exterior fold-line sun-tanned. Minor wear & soiling. A VG item. A program / poster for the Bohemian Club's 1959 Low Jinks [raunchy?] musical, presumably reminiscent of the old frat boy adage, "once a king, always a king, but once a knight is enough." The poster's artist, Lonie Bee, illustrated covers for The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Colliers, and several other periodicals. A Bay Area native, he was a member of The Thirteen Watercolorists alongside several other Bohemian Club artists.

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