Warren Newcombe
"Love Death"
Circa 1935
Original Numbered Litho
Signed and Dated in Pencil by the Artist
Artist and Academy Award Winning Set Designer
(Wizard of Oz, Singing in the Rain)
Only 25 copies were made of this print.
Warren Newcombe (1894-1960) had a prolific career
in Hollywood as a set designer for over 170 films between 1925 and
1957. He created the visual ambiance for some of the great classics
of American cinema including 'Tortilla Flat' (1942), 'Easter Parade'
(1948),'An American in Paris' (1951) and 'Singin' in the
Rain' (1952). He was also the Director of Set Painting for 'The
Wizard of Oz'. During the 1940s he twice received the Academy
Award for Special EFfects (for Green Dolphin Street and Thirty Seconds
over Tokyo).
Newcombe studied art in Boston at the Normal Art School under Joseph
De Camp and graduated in 1914. He moved to California in 1918 and
began an association with the Mertro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios during
the 1920s.
Newcombe's original lithographs are in many museums
and collections in the United States including the Frederick R.
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of
Art, Kansas City.
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