Arnold Skolnick was a book publisher and graphic artist from the United States who died on June 15 in Amherst, Massachusetts, at the age of 85.
His sons Alexander and Peter from his first marriage to Irish Jay are survivors. Mose and Charna Skolnick, as well as his sister Helene Rothschild, survive Skolnick.
The original 1969 poster for the Woodstock Art and Music Fair is his most well-known work.
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According to his son Alexander Skolnick, the cause of death was respiratory failure.
Skolnick, who was 32 at the time, designed the “peace, love, and music” slogan using a picture of a guitar neck with a white bird sitting on it. It was accompanied by the phrase “3 Days of Peace & Music.”
Skolnick was paid $12,000 for the job, which he divided with a copywriter. He went to Woodstock for one day but departed before it started raining.
He was last seen in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
