cover image Lost Artwork of Hollywood: Classic Images from Cinema's Golden Age

Lost Artwork of Hollywood: Classic Images from Cinema's Golden Age

Fred E. Basten. Watson-Guptill Publications, $19.99 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-8230-8345-9

The Lost Artwork of Hollywood: Classic Images from Hollywood's Golden Age, collects art--drawings, paintings, retouched photos, etc.--created for posters for promotion of Hollywood films. The 100 images, reproduced in color and drawn from trade journals like Variety, Hollywood Reporter and Motion Picture Daily, are from well-known hands such as Al Hirschfeld, Norman Rockwell and Alberto Vargas, as well as less celebrated lights.