I’ve always loved the paintings that Mr. Hallorann (Scatman Crothers) has in his FL apartment in The Shining.
bwahaha - You know, I can picture those right now, and I don’t think I’ve seen that movie since it came out in 1980. Guess they must’ve been pretty…uh…effective!
They are brillant!
The hotel has a very specific look with clean lines and such. If you thought those carpets were so '70’s, well those paintings are just great and they are the last thing you expect to see on his walls.
I wonder if Nick Park could loan us the portrait of Wallace and Grommit that hangs in their home? Being a miniature, it’d be shown off to its best advantage in a stand-alone display case, perhaps with a large magnifying glass.
Those would be a real coup for the exhibition. I’d position them around the halfway point in the typical walking route, as a stimulating “pick me up” to help rouse weary museum-goers who may feel their energy levels flagging about then. Of course, I’d extend the same courtesy to our distaff art lovers, if only I could locate something suitable to the occasion… Yes, the curator is issuing a “booty call” for some bad, bad beefcake art to pair opposite the T&A… anyone? 
You could probably have a complete H.R. Giger section.
Maybe some of Chesley Bonestell’s matte paintings from various movies.
First thing I thought of were those sculptures in one of the early scenes of A Clockwork Orange where the lady began to sing Ode to Joy. I’m sure they were just foam props, but whatever.
There’s a statue of Walter Thatcher in Citizen Kane that looks pretty cool, though they used camera tricks to make it look a lot bigger.
What about the… interesting… statue Alex killed the cat-lady with?
Oh yea Bryan that’s even better.
What about the sets Salvador Dali designed for the dream sequence Hitchcock’s Spellbound? It’s been years since I’ve seen it, and my memory is a bit hazy, but ISTR that that sequence used a combination of set pieces, props, and visual effects. A little hard to acquisition the effects, but the set pieces would be interesting.
Speaking of Citizen Kane, how about the 50-foot-tall picture of Kane from the campaign scene. Yes, it’s a photo, but it’s still a pretty impressive piece.
Weren’t there paintings of some of the dozen characters Alec Guinness played in Kind Hearts and Coronets?
A little more recently, there’s the equestrian picture of Tony Soprano that Paulie saved and had reworked.
Hey! I resemble that remark! I like the look of the dingus! It should definitely be in our exhibit.
A real cop-out here, 'cause I don’t remember the name of the movie…a young man is on the lam for a Crime He Didn’t Commit, and it turns out the witness who clears him is the town drunk, played by Mickey Rooney (I think Slim Pickens was the sherriff). While the guy is a suspect, he hides with a blind woman who makes a clay bust of him. That sculpture certainly belongs in the exhibit.
I want the wall sculpture from the climactic scene of The Devil’s Advocate.
Not commissioned, exactly, and not of the “Portrait-of-Jennie” or “Eyes-Cut-Out” genre, but it would be waaay cool to have some of Marcel Duchamp’s spiral-roto-whatsits from Anemic Cinema, spinning slowly on an electric motor under a spotlight in my living room.
The Black Bird.
You know which…
In The Dick Van Dyke Show, Laura poses for a portrait, but the artist renders it nude.
The (non-existent) portrait was titled October Eve.
Of course, we’d have to paint one…
Han Solo in Carbonite - Oh, I know it’s not a sculpture or painting in the context of the movie, but Jabba has him hung on the wall like one.
The rocking Penis from A Clockwork Orange.
The Aroma Art (an lots of other bits) from the Maude’s house from Harold and Maude.