The head in the I sht is the exact same head as in the window card
isn't it?
One thing that made sense about the theory that the 1 sht was Bass/
Peak is that the head looks like it's by a different designer and been
plonked on.
Mostly he was lucky, a lot of his best work got away with being pure
design, Vertigo, Anatomy, Bonjour Tristesse, Love in the Afternoon etc
Though MWTGA suffered by having heads in it, apart from the 6 sht
design.
Don't know where that theory came from, about Bass, whether
assumption, sales technique or whether it was based in fact at all.
Could be I guess, (without that head) but could also easily be someone
influenced.
Seen Bass credited as doing the titles, not positive on that though.
Cheers,
Rich
On 24 Nov 2008, at 23:01, Richard Halegua Comic Art wrote:
oh.. just looked at the Birdman 1sh.. yes black blots, but if you
examine the face of lancaster and examine the wc image.. there is a
lot of similarity
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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----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Edwards
To: [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
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
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Hershenson
To: [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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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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