Bob Peak: Creating the Modern Movie Poster April 15, 2011

Artist and designer Bob Peak (1927-1992) has been hailed as the 'father of the modern Hollywood movie poster.' His unique style of motion picture advertising imagery will be on display in the Academy's Fourth Floor Gallery, where colorful, graphically complex original paintings done for iconic movie poster campaigns will be shown alongside the final one-sheet posters for such titles as 'My Fair Lady,' 'Camelot,' 'Superman,' 'Star Trek - The Motion Picture' and 'Apocalypse Now.'