Peter Max, iconic pop artist, dies at 88

RIP Peter Max 🙏🎨 "If any artist was responsible for defining the visual vocabulary of the 1960s, it was Peter Max, whose vividly fluorescent paintings, posters and graphic imagery were ubiquitous during the era of flower children and the Age of Aquarius."-Matt Schudel

The psychedelic pop artist Peter Max has died at 88, his son says

😢We have a signed piece of art by him, one of our faves. #RIP “Peter Max, Trippy Artist of Counterculture Era and Beyond, Dies at 88…dementia”

Peter Max has died. The US Information Agency (then the parent agency of VOA) commissioned him in 1970 to design a recruiting poster. Decades later I found and purchased a signed copy and donated it to the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting in Ohio. apnews.com/article/peter-max-...

RIP, Peter Max, the only graphic artist I can think of whose brand was so omnipresent that he managed to get his own cereal. Reid Miles never got a cereal. Hipgnosis never got a cereal. Roy Kuhlman never got a cereal. Only Peter Max. His work graced everything from earrings to phone books.

the passing of Peter Max, an artist whose distinctive vision was part of my childhood and somehow always present in my aesthetic perception, reminds me that I never talked about the recent passing of Yayoi Kusama, another artist with a strongly personal vision whose work I first discovered in my 40s

As a child in the 1970s, I slept on Peter Max’s groovy “Star Dreamer” sheets and carried one of his far-out psychedelic “Flower Power” overnight cases to sleepovers. Thank you to Peter Max, for giving me such a colorful and vibrant pop-art childhood. It was a kaleidoscopic time to be alive.

RIP Peter Max, responsible for the most colorful car the Intimidator ever drove apnews.com/article/pete...

RIP, PETER: Peter Max, who created 1994 World Cup poster, dies frontrow.soccer/oipuw #PeterMax #1994WorldCup #WorldCup

I was sad to hear of the passing of Peter Max. An artist far more popular than respected, in person he was bright and effusive, and I was glad to have spent some time with him. www.everygoddamnday.com/2014/08/pete...

Peter Max was ubiquitous back in the day. He was kitsch, really, but he had some talent and I'm a bit nostalgic about him.

A thread of Peter Max album covers Badfinger "Say No More" 1981

Peter Max, Trippy Artist of Counterculture Era, Is Dead at 88 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/a...

Flower power! Peter Max's art was everywhere in the 60s and 70s. The psychedelic artist has died at age eighty-eight. #art #psychedelia #petermax https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/peter-max-psychedelic-pop-art-icon-dies-88-rcna598250

I met Peter Max a few times, over a decade ago. The bulk of his career was behind him, and he mostly had assistants creating his paintings at that point, but when you invent an iconic style that helped define a generation, it stays yours forever.