Avanti Galleri
Artist Spotlight On Distinct Hollywood Creative Talents
Avanti Galleri is spotlighting these artist because of their influential impact on the golden age of Hollywood. Their creative set designs and concept art are celebrated on film in some of the most relevant movies of cinematic archive history.
Aside from notable acclaim, most of these artist garnered numerous Oscars and Academy nominations for their unsurpassed talent. In their own right these artist thrived away from the studios as well and developed very diverse genres of watercolor and oil paintings that are now in high demand and featured in auctions around the world.
We commend these artist for their impact not only on film but for shaping future generations of emerging artist, with the hope of emulating a by-gone era of artistry.
Otto Hunte (1881-1960) "Metropolis" Paramount Studio 1927
Wiard Ihnen (1897-1979) "Blonde Venus" Paramount 1932
Hobe Erwin (1897-1950) "Dinner At Eight" MGM Studio 1933
Cedric Gibbons (1893-1960) "Anna Karenina" MGM 1935
Hans Dreier (1885-1966) "Klondike Annie" Paramount 1936
Jack Martin Smith (1911-1993) "Wizard of OZ" MGM 1939
Howard Bristol (1902-1971) "Gone With The Wind" MGM 1939
Thomas Little (1886-1985) "The Grapes of Wrath" Fox 1940
Van Nest Polglase (1898-1968) "Citizen Kane" RKO 1941
Edwin B. Willis (1893-1963) "Mrs. Miniver" MGM 1942
Carl Jules Weyl (1890-1948) "Casablanca" Warner Bros. 1942
Stephen Goosson (1889-1973) "Gilda" Columbia 1946
Fred M. MacLean (1898-1976) "Key Largo" Warner Bros. 1948
Richard Day (1896-1972) "Streetcar Named Desire" 1951
Murray Waite (1889-1953) "High Noon" United Artist 1952
Alfred Junge (1886-1964) "Mogambo" MGM Studio 1953
Claude E. Carpenter (1904-1976) "Carmen Jones" Fox 1954
Joseph McMillan Johnson (1912-1990) "To Catch a Thief" 1955
Boris Leven (1908-1986) "Giant" Warner Bros. 1956
Henry Bumsted (1915-2006) "Vertigo" Paramount Studio 1958
Robert F. Boyle (1909-2010) "North By Northwest" MGM 1959
Russell A. Gausman (1892-1963) "Pillow Talk" Universal 1959
Ted Haworth (1917-1993) "Some Like It Hot" United Artist 1959
Alexander Golitzen (1908-2005) "Flower Drum Song" 1961
Samuel M. Comer (1893-1974) "Breakfast at Tiffany's" 1961
Frank R. McKelvy (1914-1980) "The Misfits" United Artist 1961
Rafael Suárez "The Magnificent Seven" United Artist
Gabriel Béchir (1917-2001) "The Longest Day" Fox 1962
Ken Adam (1921-2016) "Dr. No" United Artist 1962
John DeCuir Sr. (1918-1991) "Cleopatra" Fox Studio 1963
John Box (1920-2005) "Lawrence of Arabia" Columbia 1962 ~ "Doctor Zhivago" MGM Studio 1965
Edward G. Boyle (1899-1977) "The Thomas Crown Affair" 1968
Peter Lamont "Fiddler On The Roof" United Artist 1971
Dean Tavoularis "The Godfather" Paramount Pictures 1972
James W. Payne (1929-1992) "The Sting" Universal 1973
Richard Sylbert (1928-2002) "Chinatown" Paramount 1974