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Pencil on Paper by Reynold Brown

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Pencil on Paper by Reynold Brown
depicting Indians with bows and arrows, signed lower left. Image measures 7"x9" in double mat with silver wood frame. Personal note from artist written on back of picture. Reynold Brown was born in 1917 in Los Angeles as William Reynold Brown to William Reynold Brown (a railroad engineer) and his wife Ada (Fairley) Brown. He drew continuously as a child. He particularly liked telling stories by drawing, He got a well rounded art education in Alhambra High School in California under the stewardship of a World War I veteran and artist, Lester Bonar.About 1937, with the help of Bonar, he was able to get a job inking and then drawing the syndicated comic strip by Hal Forrest, "Tailspin Tommy." This strip told the story of a barnstorming pilot, Tailspin Tommy. Brown worked on the strip until 1941. Through Bonar, Brown was able to meet Norman Rockwell. Rockwell advised Brown that if he wanted to learn illustration he would have to leave the comic strip and start finding jobs as an illustrator. With the outbreak of World War II, Brown was able to use his aircraft rendering skills learned from working on Tailspin Tommy to land a job with North American Aviation in California. On some of these he collaborated with another artist, Mary Louise Tejeda, the only woman artist in the department of over forty men. In 1946, at war's end, Brown married Tejeda. They moved to New York so he could pursue a career in illustration. His illustrations appeared in magazines such as Boys' Life, Outdoor Life, Popular Science and Argosy. n 1951, while doing a show for Art Center, Brown met Misha Kallis, an Art Director for Universal Pictures. Brown soon completed his first movie poster for Universal, The World in His Arms, featuring Gregory Peck and Ann Blyth. That began a series of over 250 campaigns for Universal, MGM, Disney and American International Pictures (AIP). Brown's work was used to promote classics like Ben Hur and Spartacus, westerns such as The Alamo and Taza, Son of Cochise and drama, horror, monster and science fiction films. His science fiction works for such pieces as The Time Machine and This Island Earth, as well as his monsters like The Creature from the Black Lagoon have already become popular among collectors.