North American Aviation Company advertisement depicting the company's B-25 Mitchell bomber in aerial combat. The advertisement includes a "cut away" drawing of the plane, a specialty of the artist, Reynold Brown during his time as a technical artist at the Company.
Reynold Brown (1917 – 1991) was an American realist artist who painted many Hollywood film posters.
During World War II he worked as a technical artist at North American Aviation.
Following the war Brown drew numerous advertisements and illustrations for magazines such as Argosy, Popular Science, Saturday Evening Post, Boy's Life, Outdoor Life, and Popula Aviation. Brown also drew paperback book covers.
Brown taught at the Art Center College of Design where he met Misha Kallis, then an art director at Universal Pictures.Through Kallis, Brown began his film poster work starting with The World in His Arms (1952), then did the art work for dozens of film posters, including:
Brown's original painting for the poster of The Alamo hung for many years at the actual Alamo in San Antonio, Texas
In 1994, Mel Bucklin's documentary about Reynold Brown entitled The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters was broadcast on US public television. A book reproducing many of Brown's artworks, Reynold Brown: A Life in Pictures, was published in 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynold_Brown
