Artist
Batiste Madalena
American, 1902–1988
Batiste Madalena was an American American Folk Art artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art.
Batiste Madalena (1902–1988) was an American commercial artist best known for the original advertisements he created for the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, NY from 1924-1928. Other movie theater exhibitors commissioned film advertising but Madalena's work is the largest archive of this type of work to survive.
Collections represented
Museum
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