A WEDDING

Original U.S. 27 inch x 41 inch 1-Sheet Poster for the 1978 Robert Altman Comedy A WEDDING starring Desi Arnaz Jr., Carol Burnett, Geraldine Chaplin, Howard Duff, Mia Farrow, Vittorio Gassman and Lillian Gish.

The daughter of a Louisville truck driver marries the scion of a very wealthy family, but the reception at the family estate is boycotted by the invited guests.

Poster art by Richard Hess (1934 – 1991). Born in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hess did a few night school classes and a short stint at Michigan State University. Hess began his professional design career in 1955 as an art director for J. Walter Thompson in Detroit, then N.W Ayer in Philadelphia, and Benton and Bowles in New York. In 1965, he formed his own graphics firm, Richard Hess, Inc. In 1971 he found himself beginning a second career, Hess the illustrator. He began illustrating in the same way he had begun his designing—by emulating his heroes. He was influenced initially by Henri Rousseau’s and Edward Hicks’ primitive paintings. He began to create spoofs of paintings by the old masters and various other genres. But by the mid-1970s, his illustrations had a voice of their own. His paintings graced the covers of Time, TV Guide, New York Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine. They appeared on record covers, on posters, and in all forms of corporate communications for Exxon, Xerox, CBS, AT&T, Mobil, etc.

The poster is in very good folded condition with staple holes in all corners.