Now, visitors to the museum can take a peek inside the trunk, which Thompson likened to “a mobile police narcotics lab” stuffed full of “two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers … and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.” Used as his personal car, notoriously seen ripping around the mountain roads of Aspen, the “Red Shark” even appeared on screen in the 1998 film adaptation starring Johnny Depp, which the actor and close friend of Thompson’s drove back to Owl Farm himself following the completion of the shoot.
The original Rolling Stone “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” issue featured this Steadman image of Doctor Gonzo.Two decades later, a group of Thompson’s closest friends gifted him with a cherry red Chevrolet Caprice convertible of his very own.
This 1978 drawing shows Steadman as an unwitting passenger aboard a Hunter S. Thompson quote illustrated by Ralph SteadmanĪ 1981 caricature of Thompson with devil hornsĪ 2019 illustration of the Kentucky Derby that Steadman created for Kentucky Derby Magazine Thompson one year after the writer’s death.Ī 1990 Hunter S. Opposite this ran the infamous opening: “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”Ī 2006 self-portrait of Ralph Steadman that quotes Hunter S. This is the opening spread to “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” in Rolling Stone.
In 2010, he created this image for Slash’s single “By the Sword.” The Steadman exhibit goes beyond his work for Thompson. This illustration ran in the second one, which hit stands on Nov. When Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas originally ran in Rolling Stone, it was divided across two issues. 22, 1992, “Fear and Loathing in Elko” issue. “That’s why this was created.”Ī Thompson sketch that Steadman created for the 2008 Alex Gibney documentary, Gonzo. “I’m constantly trying to keep the Hunter and Gonzo in everything,” says exhibit co-producer Michael Cash. Steadman created this image of Harlow - who hails from Louisville - for the rapper’s 2022 LP, Come Home the Kids Miss You. 11, 1971, issue of Rolling Stone, where Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was originally serialized. Thompson) and his attorney-sidekick Doctor Gonzo (a.k.a.
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