Drew Struzan (born 1946) is an American artist. Struzan has painted album covers, advertising, collectibles, and book covers, but he is best known for his extensive movie poster work. Popuarly known by his signature first name on his work, Struzan is one of the industry's most recognized talents, having provided artwork for over 100 movie posters, including many of the best known films of all time. A particular favorite artist of film directors George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, Struzan created distinct and indelible images for many of their film releases, with Spielberg decreeing that Struzan be the only artist allowed to render the space creature character, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
Spielberg says that Struzan is his "favorite movie artist"; Lucas has called him "the only collectible artist since World War II"; and the Boston Globe called him "the greatest poster artist of our day".
Struzan was born a child prodigy with the rare distinction of skill in art. As such, Struzan and his artwork were studied at Stanford University and many years later, those early works can be found displayed in museums and sold for thousands of dollars.
Struzan graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where he eventually returned to teach for a short time.
Struzan illustrated the album cover artwork for Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare, which Rolling Stone Magazine voted one of the Top 100 Album Covers Of All Time .
From 1995 through 1997 Struzan's work was shown throughout Japan in a series of one-man exhibitions, which offered his one sheet work for Lucas and Spielberg films in a successful limited edition program.
In 1999, in an exhibit entitled: , Struzan had over 65 pieces of his artwork presented at the prestigious Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Among the numerous films that Struzan has created images for are:
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