Batiste Madalena [SEP] date of death
Batiste Madalena
Batiste Madalena (1902–1988) was an American commercial artist best known for the original advertisements he created for the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, NY from 1924-1928. Other movie theater exhibitors commissioned film advertising but Madalena's work is the largest archive of this type of work to survive.
Early life.
Batiste Madalena was born in Italy and immigrated to the United States in 1904. He enrolled at the Mechanics Institute, later to become the Rochester Institute of Technology to study art. During his artistic training
", from October 2009 to April 2010. The show included 53 posters along with screenings of some of the films the posters were created to advertise.
References.
- Batiste Madalena: Poster Paintings for the Movies, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1986
- Movie Posters: The Paintings of Batiste Madalena, by Batiste Madalena and Judith Katten, 1986
- Now Playing: Hand-Painted Poster Art from the 1910s through the 1950s, by Anthony Slide, 2007