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Two original photographic collages created by acclaimed artist, photographer, and graphic designer Jayme Odgers for Fleetwood Mac's landmark 1979 double album, Tusk. The first, 16 x 20, depicts the surreal interior setting created for Odgers's celebrated ‘floating collage,’ while the second, 17 x 17, presents the completed gravity-defying composition featuring all five members of Fleetwood Mac (Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, and John McVie). Both are exhibition-quality chromogenic prints with extensive hand retouching and are mounted to their original art boards; the ‘floating collage’ retains its original presentation folder, 18.5 x 24, with brown protective cover sheet annotated in felt tip, "Fleetwood Back," while the companion band collage is matted to an overall size of 21.5 x 22. Each is signed in the lower border in felt tip by Odgers with the inscription, “Original Album Art.” In overall fine condition. Accompanied by an original first pressing of Tusk on vinyl with inner sleeves reproducing both images, each also signed by Odgers, and a detailed letter of authenticity from Jeff Gold, the owner of Recordmecca and a former executive vice president/general manager of Warner Bros. Records.
Commissioned by art director Larry Vigon in the wake of Rumours' unprecedented success, Jayme Odgers was recruited as the project's fine-art photographer and given unusual creative freedom to develop imagery unlike anything previously associated with Fleetwood Mac. After years of postponed sessions and abandoned location scouting, Odgers ultimately elected to photograph the band in the grand living room of his Los Angeles home, where he conceived a surreal gravity-defying interior that would become one of Tusk's defining visual motifs. Working in his characteristic style of combining separately photographed elements into seamless compositions, he transformed the room into an upside-down environment by inverting furniture and décor before integrating individually photographed band members into the finished collage.
The production proved every bit as unconventional as the finished artwork. Odgers later recalled that the band ‘hated the idea’ and refused to be photographed together, requiring five separate sessions over time as each member reluctantly posed alone. Ironically, their refusal to cooperate became the very quality that made the composition possible, as Odgers observed that had the group worked together, ‘the image never would have looked like it does.’ Even after the collages were completed, the band nearly rejected them, with Mick Fleetwood later recounting that the artwork sparked hours of debate before ultimately being included because it provoked such strong reactions. In Fleetwood Mac FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Iconic Rock Survivors, author Ryan Reed describes the resulting ‘floating collage’ as ‘Tusk's true visual centerpiece.’ Its lasting significance was reaffirmed in 2016, when Rhino Records selected a black-and-white version of the composition for the cover of Alternate Tusk. Preserved directly from Jayme Odgers's archive, these original production collages offer a rare record of the creative process behind one of Tusk's most memorable images.
