Brown Reynold

American realist artist who painted many Hollywood film posters and was briefly active as a comics artist and also drew numerous advertisements and illustrations for magazines. During World War II he worked as a technical artist at North American Aviation. There he met his wife, fellow artist Mary Louise Tejeda. He suffered a severe stroke in 1976 that left his left side paralyzed and ended his commercial work. Brown and his family moved to Dawes County, Nebraska; with his wifes help, Brown continued to paint landscapes until his death on 24 August 1991 at age 73. In 1994, Mel Bucklins documentary about Reynold Brown entitled The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters was broadcast on U.S. public television. A book reproducing many of Browns artworks, Reynold Brown: A Life in Pictures, was published in 2009. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less