Artist Statement
“Salad Days. 18 x 24 inches. Screenprint on cream Speckle Tone paper. Signed by Shepard Fairey. Numbered edition of 550. $50. "The Obey Salad Days print was created to accompany the Salad Days exhibition, a selection of my art from 1989-1999 at the Cranbrook Art Museum. My show is a companion show to Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986 and Salad Days is meant to show the influence of punk on my early work’s aesthetics, concepts, and methods. The Salad Days print features a recreation of the paste-up I made in the process of refining the Obey Star Icon in January 1996.
About This Print
Salad Days (First Edition) is a 2018 Shepard Fairey screenprint, 18 x 24 inches on cream Speckle Tone paper, published by Obey Giant. It is signed and numbered in an edition of 550, released at $50. Fairey created it to accompany the Salad Days exhibition of his 1989-1999 art at the Cranbrook Art Museum, a companion to a punk-graphics show. The print recreates the hand-made paste-up he used in 1996 to refine the Obey Star icon, using a paper star window to crop the Icon Face before he learned to use a Mac. It celebrates the low-fi, punk-rooted techniques of his early career.
Market Context
Estimated market value: 127.0. Observed range 100.0–375.0. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-14. Value is the median of recorded public sales (>= $100); low-high shows the observed sale range.