Anyone who can bring The Missouri Breaks to mind at all will be able to picture the Brando/Nicholson two heads drawing used in most of the posters and soundtrack albums.
I was just googling to see what other artwork might exist (with half an eye to the possibility of doing a custom cover) when I spotted a version of the Nicholson head as a separate standalone drawing (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ed/82/4d/ed824d5c4345d6e57b496b506dbcda63.jpg). That prompted me to take a closer look at my LP, whereupon I noticed for the first time that the two-shot is a physical cut and paste job. The join where the two portraits are connected is in some places quite crudely done (notably at Nicholson's collar) and a half-assed attempt to cover up one instance of Peak's signature has been made.
I've had this record 24 years and never looked at the art closely enough to see that before. But now I can't unsee it.
Presumably that was not done by Peak himself, but by someone in a studio art department? (Otherwise I'd feel a better job would have been made of it.) This is just the sort of thing Drew Struzan grumbles about in the latter pages of his book.
Anybody got any thoughts or anything to add on this?
Nothing to add, other than 'interesting observation'! I've always assumed it was one whole piece, not a composite of two portraits -- and one presumably not by Peak (if that's what you're suggesting)?
As a superfan of both Williams and Nicholson (and the film itself is pretty good too), that portrait; or the entire artwork including Brando, is something I'd love to hang on my wall.
