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3 2 P E R S P E C T I V E | M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 2 2 The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop: A Museum Exhibition Like No Other N E W S B Y C U R AT O R S T H O M A S A . WA L S H , A D G , A N D K A R E N L . M A N E S S , A S S I S TA N T P R O F E S S O R , U T- A U S T I N A. BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART, EAST GALLERY, EXHIBITION DIGITAL MODEL, JAYME GREENE, ARTIST. B. WARNER BROS. SCENIC ARTISTS (1930S). L-R: VERNE STRANG, BILL MCCONNELL, FRANKIE COHEN, CHARLEY WALLACE, JACK BROOKS, JAMES MCCANN, EMMETT ALEXANDER. ED STRANG COLLECTION. C. MGM SCENIC PAINT SHOP, PAINT MIXING AREA. COURTESY OF THE MARGARET HERRICK LIBRARY. On April 20, 2022, the ADG's pioneer Scenic Artists and community will finally receive the recognition that has eluded them for too long when a formal exhibition of twenty-two historic MGM and Fox motion picture backdrops created during Hollywood's golden age will go on public display at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. In at the age of , homas Walsh began his apprenticeship as a Scenic Artist in Hollywood. His mentors, role models and antagonists were some of our industry's finest artists. All were men, some thoughtful, others taciturn, ribald, creative, proud, talented, damaged or bitter from working anonymously in a profession that they felt had undermined their aspirations for singular recognition and artistic achievement. Jump to the spring of 202. homas was serving in his third and final term as President of the Art Directors Guild and his eorts to launch the ADG Archives had finally been realied. he archive's first maor endeavor was to partner with the Scenic, Title & Graphic Artists Council and JC Backings on an eort of redress. The scenic paint profession had been in decline A B C