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The Gallery Nucleus in Southern California is hosting an exhibition of movie poster key art created by legendary artist Bob Peak. The Bob Peak: Father of The Modern Hollywood Poster gallery show will feature over 40 of Bob Peak’s original illustrations, paintings, and a new line of limited editions prints.
Bob Peak was one of the bedrocks of classic movie poster illustration. His key art and promotional artwork for films includes West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Superman, and Apocalypse Now.
A one of a kind edition 40″ x 60″ print of Bob Peak’s “My Fair Lady” movie poster key art will be auctioned off at the show with the proceeds donated to the Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund.
The Bob Peak movie poster exhibition runs June 6th through June 23rd 2009 at the Gallery Nucleus, 210 East Main St, in Alhambra CA.
While you are in New York City to see the previously mentioned James Bond Movie Poster Exhibition, you might also stop off at the New York Academy of Sciences to see their new film poster gallery exhibit called Coming Attractions! 80 Years of Cinematic Science: Movie Posters from Around the World:
“Coming Attractions! 80 Years of Cinematic Science: Movie Posters from Around the World, an exhibition in the Academy’s Gallery of Art & Science through June 30, brings together posters for more than 25 movies, including examples from such countries as Argentina, Germany, Japan, Russia, Great Britain, Italy, Poland, and the U.S., among others. The exhibit includes a British poster for the re-release of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis; one from France for the American eco-drama, Soylent Green; and an Argentinean poster for the Italian film, Mission Stardust. Also represented will be posters for such true-to-life dramas as Inherit the Wind, the thinly disguised rendition of the 1925 Scopes “monkey trial,” and a poster for the glossy American tribute to the medical profession, Not as a Stranger.”
The New York Academy of Sciences web site features an online gallery of movie posters featured in the Cinematic Science expo. It’s an interesting subject matter for a movie poster exhibition (with one-sheets being supplied by the Posteritati gallery), and something you might not expect to find at a science academy. Besides that, any art gallery show featuring a Re-Animator movie poster as part of the exhibit is definitely worth a visit.
One of our favorite poster galleries, Posteritati, has announced an upcoming exhibition of James Bond movie posters. The vintage poster exhibition, called Bond, James Bond, will be showcasing vintage movie posters from James Bond films, including domestic and international 007 movie one-sheets:
The exhibition will run from Tuesday, May 23 through Wednesday, July 12 at the Posteritati Gallery in New York City and will feature rare international posters from Bond classics including Dr. No (1962), From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), Casino Royale (1967), On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Live and Let Die (1973), The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), Octopussy (1983) and many more.
This Bond poster retrospective has good timing, as the “internets” have been abuzz this week about a leaked film trailer and image of the new Casino Royale teaser poster featuring the newest James Bond, actor Daniel Craig. It isn’t clear if this new 007 poster is an international or domestic teaser poster. What is clear is that Sony Pictures really wants you to know this Bond will be “dark”. The studio has been battling quite a bit of negative press about Daniel Craig being cast in the Bond role, so it remains to be seen if any piece of key art (good or bad) or advertising will be able to turn the tide of negative buzz surrounding the film.
The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog has a fantastic collection of images of vintage Mexican Lobby Cards from “the golden age of Mexican Cinema”. The online selection of lobby cards from science fiction, horror, and other genre films highlight an ongoing Los Angeles area exhibit of artwork from Mexican cinema. (via Boing Boing)
