alot of RKO posters are done by King Kong artist Glenn Cravath, who
moved to doing Columbia films in the late 40s-50s
many of the Charles Starrett posters at Columbia during that time are
done by Cravath and occasionally you can spot his signature
he also did many of the 50s Columbia serial posters
the best book on artists of course is Reel Art and if you have a good
eye and can decipher the styles of individual artists, you can
extrapolate that to other posters
something that does surprise me though is that nowhere can you find a
complete list of posters done by Robert McGinnis, Frank McCarthy or
Reynold Brown among others and of course this is really a reflection
of the fact that the poster artists were not important to most people
until late in the game
on Bird Man.. I think the one sheet is done by the same artist who
did the window card just examining the style and technique of the
artist. Also, seeing as Peak did other promotional art for the film,
it does make sense he did the posters
furthermore, this poster stands apart from all other Bass posters in
style. It just doesn't have the line that Bass used
also, Bass used heavy black "blots" which are not used on the Bird Man poster
an artist has a certain way of "putting down his line"
for instance, Walt Kelly of Pogo "feathered" his stroke. Meaning that
if you look at his lines, one end is thicker than the other
some artists, like comic artist Lou Fine drew a very thin and sensual
line. Jack Kirby used a thick, even line
each artist has his own way of doing something. The folds of a
woman's dress or a window curtain, how they draw rocks, how they
texturize a color or the common perspective some artists use from one
painting to another (McGinnis loved to draw women from the back and
side for instance or when they are facing you, they are favoring one leg).
If you study them closely, you can identify an artist with just a quick look.
Rich================
At 02:01 PM 11/24/2008, Dave Rosen wrote:
I, for one, would love to find out who did those RKO posters. The
late 40s, early 50s RKO 1-sheets are among the most attractive US
1-sheets ever, IMHO. It would be nice to put artists' names to this
beautiful artwork
Dave
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From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Phil Edwards
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] One sheet for Birdman of Alcatraz
<http://www.bobpeak.com/artpage.cfm?artid=33>http://www.bobpeak.com/artpage.cfm?artid=33
While BIRDMAN is listed, there are no examples and it falls very
early in his film poster career, so he may have done the WC, but not
any other key art that was used.
No one ever mentions that the famous Brando with sponge key art for
the German APOCALYPSE NOW by Peak is flopped - his siganture is
there, but is back to front.
As for not listing artists unless signed, there are exceptions -
such as Amsel's international art for CHINATOWN used in Australia
(both as full colour and duotone second printings) and Germany. The
US paper on CHINATOWN is often attributed erroneously to Amsel but
isn't by him.
What about all the Reynold Brown art that's unsigned but is well
known and documented as by Brown, or Albert Kallis et al? Of course
studio/distributor art departments often added other material to the
key art (apart from credits and sometimes title) of work by known artists.
Poster artists, with few exceptions such as Drew, Peak, Brown,
Kallis, etc.go almost completely unacknowledged - which considering
it's actually art that is being collected when one collects movie
posters does seem a little odd.
What artists, for example, did all those great RKO posters of the 40s and 50s?
Phil
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From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Bruce Hershenson
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] One sheet for Birdman of Alcatraz
Bob Peak did the window card, which is signed. All the other posters
are not like the window card, and I don't think Peak did any of them.
I think it is likely Bob Peak told Dan Strebin he did some art for
Birdman of Alcatraz, and Dan misheard, or maybe Peak mis-remembered.
In my database, I only use artists' names if the art is signed, for
this very reason. On Moon Over Miami, one of the one-sheets is by
Vargas, and the pressbook states that many of the other posters were
drawn in the Vargas style by other artists.
Bruce
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Richard Halegua Comic Art
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Bob Peak told Dan Strebin he did this art
it does look like other art he was doing in the time period
At 10:30 PM 11/23/2008, you wrote:
Can somebody tell me who did the artwork on this poster?
Thanks, Channing Thomson
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