Milton Menasco

Рождение : 1890-01-22, Los Angeles, California, USA

Смерть : 1974-06-07

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Milton Menasco (January 22, 1890 – June 7, 1974) was an American painter and art director of silent movies born in Los Angeles, California. Born in 1890 in Los Angeles, California, Menasco began his art career in the early days of Hollywood and described his work then as the "blood and thunder" posters which enticed movie fans into theaters to watch the first silent pictures. He was commissioned for mural paintings at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco for the World's Fair in 1915. His vivid use of colors and graphics won him recognition in Hollywood, where he worked on 33 films--29 times as art director and twice as set director. In 1925 he was the architecture and set director for the original film based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. This film received accolades for its innovative art direction and special effects. To quote one review in the NewTimes: "And while Harry O. Hoyt is credited as director, a host of fellow auteurs must take credit for Lost World's still impressive thrills, especially the effects work of Willis O'Brien (who would later animate King Kong in 1933) and the wild set design from Milton Menasco." A complete list of Menasco's film credits is given here. In 1925 Menasco went to New York City as art director for a film making company and turned to advertising. He also painted portraits and water colors of horses and ships during this time which he sold in the City's galleries. During World War II, Life magazine commissioned him to draw air and sea battles to chronicle the war in Europe and in the Pacific Theater. After the war, Mr. Menasco moved to Kentucky to devote himself entirely to his real love, horse portraiture. Here he painted the equine racing greats of the nation and helped with art direction at the Thoroughbred Record and Sporting News. He and his wife purchased a farm where an old brick house built in the 18th Century served for many years as his studio. Horsemen admired the richness and feeling reflected in Menasco's paintings, and his clients included John Hay Whitney, Isabel Dodge Sloane, President Ronald Reagan and Allaire du Pont. One of his first large paintings was for Lucille Markey depicting nine of her horses at Calumet Farm including Citation, Coaltown and others grouped in the track with exercise boys up. He also painted Secretariat for owner, Penny Chenery. In 1953 Menasco painted the famous broodmare La Troienne in a work titled "La Troienne and Her Foals": Eighteen Vignettes and One Painting Together in One Frame" for John Whitney. The painting was exhibited at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York. In 1999 it sold from the estate of Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney through Sotheby's auction house for £74,000 (c. US$120,000). In 1957, Menasco painted Doubledogdare and Delta for Arthur B. Hancock, Jr. The artist explained that although the actual painting had taken him about three months to complete, "behind it goes all the training, study and experience of my life." A distinguishing mark of Menasco's paintings is the detail to sky and landscape backgrounds. A perfect example of this detail is apparent in Nashua, with Eddie Arcaro up, painted by Menasco at Hialeah Park for Leslie Combs II. The background shows the track and a ring of palm trees. Milton Menasco died in 1974 of a heart attack at his farm in Versailles, Kentucky. Description above from the Wikipedia article Milton Menasco,   licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Фильмы

The Savage
Art Direction
Rivalry between two behavioral scientists gets out of hand...
Men of Steel
Art Direction
Jan Bokak is a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle. Two different girls -- wealthy socialite Claire Pitt and blue-collar worker Mary Berwick -- simultaneously fall for Bokak. It later develops that Claire and Mary are actually sisters, the first of a series of surprising plot twists leading to Bokak being accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Puppets
Art Direction
Nicola Riccobini, a puppet master in New York's Italian quarter, is an energetic and domineering man in the family, in contrast to his dreamy, poetic cousin Bruno.
Too Much Money
Art Direction
Millionaire Robert Broadley, in order to curb his wive's enthusiasm for spending money foolishly, inform her that he is now broke and penniless, which might have been a good plan if a friend of his, with some crooked ways, hadn't gotten involved.
Scarlet Saint
Art Direction
Heroine Fidele Tridon has grown up with the knowledge that her father has promised her in marriage to Baron Kurt Badeau. When Fidele comes of age, the Baron shows up expecting to claim his young bride. In the interim, however, Fidele has fallen in love with wealthy horseman Philip Collett.
Затерянный мир
Art Direction
Первая адаптация классического романа Сэра Артура Конан Дойла, повествующего о крае, в котором до сих пор обитают древние существа.
So Big
Art Direction
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
The Perfect Flapper
Art Direction
A 1924 film directed by John Francis Dillon.
Lilies of the Field
Art Direction
A young mother, Mildred, doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband's, and the man gets drunk and begins groping her when they get home. Her husband sees this and uses it as an excuse to sue his wife for divorce. In the ensuing trial he wins, due to fraudulent evidence, and gets custody of the child. Complications ensue.
Painted People
Art Direction
A 1924 film directed by Clarence G. Badger.
Thundergate
Art Direction
Robert Wells is an American born in China who, unbeknownst to him, has an Oriental half-brother. Wells' uncle sends him to help Ray Williams build bridges in China. Williams is in league with Chinese reactionaries and he discredits Wells by turning him into a drug addict. Wells eventually becomes an outcast and is in a stupor when he is found by his half-brother, Kong Sue, the son of the Lord of Thundergate, a powerful Mandarin reactionary.
The Huntress
Art Direction
Bela, reared by Indians, learns that she is a white orphan and runs away from the Indian village to avoid marrying a brave from the tribe. She determines to marry land prospector Sam Gladding, who resists her advances but later falls in love with Bela when an Indian sage gives him some advice.
The Girl of the Golden West
Art Direction
The Isle of Lost Ships
Set Decoration
A likely lost film, that tells the story of people and ships trapped in seaweed infested section of the southern Atlantic Ocean known as the Sargasso Sea.
Lorna Doone
Costume Design
In 17th-century England, an outlaw clan kidnaps a young girl, who grows up among them. The farm boy who met her just before the kidnapping eventually rescues her, and they fall in love.
The Tong Man
Art Direction
An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.
The Dragon Painter
Art Direction
A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.
His Birthright
Art Direction
Yukio is illegal in the United States and is used by a gang of spies for their plans. Yukio must steal secret documents from an admiral. When he's submitting the documents to the gang, he realizes what he has done and claims the documents back. A struggle follows.