Reynold Brown's BEHIND THE HIGH WALL (1956) 0

[The Voord]

I purchased Reynold Brown's movie poster painting for BEHIND THE HIGH WALL (1956) in recent times.  The painting had minor condition issues, but nothing that couldn't be corrected.  As bought, the painting had areas of (noticeable) dirt along the left-hand yellow border . . . two photographic paste-ups were missing . . . and a small area of yellow paint had lifted away when the bottom photo was removed from the art.

Carefully using an eraser, most of the surface dirt came away from the yellow border easily enough.

For the small area of missing yellow paint (to the immediate left of where the bottom photo was once situated), I mixed a near-as-dammit match of acrylic paint and used an airbrush to re-colour (I've been painting for a long, long time, so do have experience in such matters).

Next my print-maker friend in Los Angeles, Lloyd Braddy, acquired for me a printed poster of the movie advertising campaign (surprisingly available on eBay for $20).  Lloyd scanned the two photo elements and reduced them in size to match the original painting (illustrated at a smaller scale to the printed poster).  The two photographic recreations were printed out onto heavy card by Lloyd and once forwarded to me I used a recommended archival paste to lightly affix them to the art.

Not exactly a major piece of restoration, but I do think the end-result shows a marked improvement.

Here's a selection of photographs showing the project in progress from beginning to end . . .

 

[stinkininkin]

Well done!

[John E.]

Wow! Nice work!

[Bronty]

terrific.   I'm only a little familiar with Brown but really like what I've seen of his work.

[The Voord]

On ‎11‎/‎8‎/‎2018 at 3:55 PM, Bronty said:

terrific.   I'm only a little familiar with Brown but really like what I've seen of his work.

Reynold Brown is my all-time-favourite Movie Poster artist.  He is more well known for his Horror and Science-Fiction stuff  of the 1950s and 60s (which commands high prices).  I'm just happy to now own four of his paintings when (going back a few months) I thought just one example would be a big stretch for me!

My FB group has been very successful for networking, as I'm sure will be the case with your own FB Game Art group.  

Edited November 10, 2018 by The Voord

[aokartman]

On 11/6/2018 at 8:58 AM, The Voord said:

I purchased Reynold Brown's movie poster painting for BEHIND THE HIGH WALL (1956) in recent times.  The painting had minor condition issues, but nothing that couldn't be corrected.  As bought, the painting had areas of (noticeable) dirt along the left-hand yellow border . . . two photographic paste-ups were missing . . . and a small area of yellow paint had lifted away when the bottom photo was removed from the art.

Carefully using an eraser, most of the surface dirt came away from the yellow border easily enough.

For the small area of missing yellow paint (to the immediate left of where the bottom photo was once situated), I mixed a near-as-dammit match of acrylic paint and used an airbrush to re-colour (I've been painting for a long, long time, so do have experience in such matters).

Next my print-maker friend in Los Angeles, Lloyd Braddy, acquired for me a printed poster of the movie advertising campaign (surprisingly available on eBay for $20).  Lloyd scanned the two photo elements and reduced them in size to match the original painting (illustrated at a smaller scale to the printed poster).  The two photographic recreations were printed out onto heavy card by Lloyd and once forwarded to me I used a recommended archival paste to lightly affix them to the art.

Not exactly a major piece of restoration, but I do think the end-result shows a marked improvement.

Here's a selection of photographs showing the project in progress from beginning to end . . .

 

Nice example of tasteful restoration!  David

[stinkininkin]

2 hours ago, The Voord said:

Reynold Brown is my all-time-favourite Movie Poster artist.  He is more well known for his Horror and Science-Fiction stuff  of the 1950s and 60s (which commands high prices).  I'm just happy to now own four of his paintings when (going back a few months) I thought just one example would be a big stretch for me!

My FB group has been very successful for networking, as I'm sure will be the case with your own FB Game Art group.  

You have 4?  Let's see the other 3!

[MagnusX]

I LOVE the restoration part of this story
more that the Art.

Congratulations; Well done..!

 

Edited November 10, 2018 by MagnusX

[The Voord]

8 hours ago, stinkininkin said:

You have 4?  Let's see the other 3!

Link to my CAF (for full write-ups, larger scans, additional images, etc.):

https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=1865

Other three RB artworks I now own:

 

 

[Bronty]

Lovely!   What a skilled artist. Now if you could only find attack of the 50ft woman!  Yowza!

Edited November 11, 2018 by Bronty