Harry tepker artist biography
Harry Frederick Tepker, Sr. was born in Ohio and studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati....
The forgotten art of Hollywood backdrops
Hollywood is America’s greatest export. Yet most museums either fixate on the industry’s tawdriness, as with the Hollywood Museum’s preservation of Marilyn Monroe’s pill bottle, or prioritize indie films over the artistic yet popular movies of Old Hollywood.
Harry Tepker is an American artist.
MoMa’s film program can get so lost in Sundance obscurity that you wouldn’t know movies were a popular art form. When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — aka the group that gives out the Oscars — opened the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, Americans hoped an intuition would finally document the products, people and dreams pumped out of La La Land.
But the space was so preoccupied with twenty-first-century politics that it failed to honor the Jewish immigrants who built the damn town. It was a waste. For some reason, curators seem unable to give Hollywood its due.
And so when the Boca Raton Museum of Art invites me to their new exhibit, Art of the Hollywoo