Movie Posters By Drew Struzan

A Portland, Oregon native in a family of meager means, Struzan was born a child prodigy with the rare distinction of skill in art. As such, Struzan and his artwork were studied by researchers at Stanford University. Ironically, it would be many years later, in 1969, that Struzan's parents would discover one of those early childhood works being offered for sale in a Los Angeles art gallery on Melrose Avenue, for thousands of dollars. Although Struzan struggled with dyslexia as an eight-year-old, his South San Francisco elementary teacher discovered the reason for his inability to read, and he was held back one year by his mother in order to catch up.
In 1965, at age 18, he enrolled at the Art Center College of Design then located in West Los Angeles, California.