Milton Menasco (Art)

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...Read More