William Reynold Brown (October 18, 1917 – August 24, 1991) was an American realist artist who painted many Hollywood film posters many of which can be seen here.
His final Hollywood poster was for “The Dunwich Horror”. He walked away from Hollywood at a time when it began to celebrate only the anti-hero. A pragmatist, he had taken on illustration assignments to feed his family of 8. When he could no longer rationalize the subject matter he was asked to promote, he heroically walked away…