''The Gold Rush'', 1925, painting by Armando Seguso Framed Print

Base painting for the vintage movie poster ''The Gold Rush'', 1925, with Charlie Chaplin.
Base art is the poster artwork after the text has been digitally removed.

About the artist:

Armando Seguso (Benevento, Italy, 1897 – Bronxville, New York, 1984) was an Italian-born American painter, illustrator, and musician.

His family immigrated to the U.S. when he was 4, settling in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He learned to play the violin and began a career as a musician by age 17. When he was 21, he moved to New York to study painting at the National Academy of Design. He paid his tuition by playing violin in a cabaret, vaudeville, and movie pit orchestras.

Seguso later took a position at a commercial art studio. His oil and brushwork technique, as featured on his poster for Buster Keaton's 1928 film Steamboat Bill, Jr., drew the attention of MGM's art director. He then worked primarily for MGM, illustrating with crayon, pastel, and watercolor. Some of his ass...

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