For the uninitiated, I run two different websites on Richard Amsel. The first is www.richardamsel.info / www.richard-amsel.com, now going on its tenth year. It's primarily designed to document the artist's work, pay tribute to his life, and provide additional news on the general topics of illustration and movie poster art. This site, www.richardamselmovie.com, is obviously more geared toward sharing the progress of the documentary. So when a newly discovered (rather, rediscov

However extensive I've tried to be with my research into Richard Amsel's life and work, there always seems to be a new discovery (or, more accurately, rediscovery) that I'd never seen before. Such was the case with this Amsel portrait from 1971, of legendary TV host and media mogul Merv Griffin. The images here are courtesy of Paul Devine, who wrote: Hi, I have in my collection an original painting by Richard Amsel of Merv Griffin. I bought it from Merv's family after his dea

During my early research for preparing this website, I got to know producer Michael Danahy, who was friends with Richard Amsel during the artist's early career in New York. I finally met him face to face in the summer of 2015, when he agreed to interview for the documentary. There's much more I'll be writing about later on concerning our exchanges, particularly in context to the film. Suffice to say Michael has his share of extraordinary stories and insight. I'm glad and luck

It's hard to believe that I launched this website 10 years ago today. I began building the website in late 2007. I was unemployed at the time, thanks to a writers' strike that crippled L.A.'s film & TV industry. One November afternoon I had some time on my hands and visited Fullerton, CA, to catch a retrospective of the art of J.C. Leyendecker. (A blog post from artist Bill Stout brought the show to my attention.) It rekindled my lifelong interest in Richard Amsel's work, and