How about one little thread for vintage illustration art? 3 3

[Mickey7]

Fantastic Spartans piece!  Very impressive OA movie poster collection you have.

[Mycroft]

One Thousand and One Nights volume 1 portuguese book cover (As Mil e Uma Noites 1) by Carlos Alberto Santos 

[The Voord]

Vic Fair prototype artwork for the highly-regarded 1981 movie, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN.

For his prototype artwork, displaying a high degree of finish (for what is effectively a prelim), British artist Vic Fair chose a simple but very effective design of the Meryl Streep character’s portrait enveloping a key moment from the movie. As good as the idea might have been, the design was rejected in favor of what appears to be a mostly photographic image for the resulting movie poster campaign (that still managed to retain much of Fair’s original concept).

“In the history of British film posters there are few characters as significant and influential as the designer and artist Vic Fair. During a career that spanned close to forty years, many of them spent as part of the same ever-evolving agency, Vic lent his inimitable style to several of the most iconic British movie posters ever printed. He designed marketing campaigns for most of the big film studios and distributors, including for the likes of Hammer Films and all of the posters for the very British ‘Confessions…’ series of bawdy comedies. Over the years, Vic also developed a strong working relationship with many of the British film industry’s leading directors, including Nicolas Roeg, Terry Gilliam and Michael Winner.

One of the things that really set Vic apart from his contemporaries were his skills at developing concepts that were unique and stood out from what was often a sea of other ideas, depending on how many design agencies a distributor might have been working with. He had a natural talent for concepts that used ingenious juxtaposition of elements to create surprising layouts and he wasn’t one to shy away from risqué concepts.

 

[Mycroft]

One Thousand and One Nights volume 2 portuguese book cover (As Mil e Uma Noites 2) by Carlos Alberto Santos.

[Mycroft]

One Thousand and One Nights volume 3 portuguese book cover (As Mil e Uma Noites 3) by Carlos Alberto Santos.

Edited October 26, 2022 by Mycroft

[Mycroft]

One Thousand and One Nights volume 4 portuguese book cover (As Mil e Uma Noites 4) by Carlos Alberto Santos.

[Ecclectica]

Nice variations.

[brainbats]

Charles Owens 1925 cover for the LA Times Sunday Magazine.  

[brainbats]

Catalog art for Valmor Products.  It's signed at the bottom, but I can't make out the signature - does anyone know who the artist is?

 

Edited October 29, 2022 by brainbats

[The Voord]

BEHIND THE HIGH WALL (1956), movie poster painting by Reynold Brown (shown in its frame):

Various printed posters utilizing the design:

 

Edited October 30, 2022 by The Voord

[The Voord]

REMO (1985) prototype movie poster painting by Vic Fair for the UK release.  Bryan Bysouth handled the finished (used) art.

Printed poster of Bysouth's final:

[Mycroft]

One Thousand and One Nights volume 5 portuguese book cover (As Mil e Uma Noites 5) by Carlos Alberto Santos. I didn't buy the cover for volume 6 as it was the weakest. But I bought another work by Santos ...

Edited October 31, 2022 by Mycroft

[RBerman]

I have a couple of early 20th century pieces by Fortunino Matania.

[artdealer]

Mabel Lucie Attwell

The Amateur Cook, 1905.

I’ve been collecting British book illustrations from the early 20th Century.

 

[artdealer]

Helen Jacobs.

“Florence M. Jacobs - Her Book”

Personal work.

 

[The Voord]

OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN  (1983) movie poster comp by Lee MacLeod.

OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN was a 1983 Canadian-American horror film directed by George P. Cosmatos and starring Peter Weller. It was written by Brian Taggert and based on the novel The Visitor by Chauncey G. Parker III. It was filmed on location in Montreal, Quebec but set in New York City. The film won two awards at the Paris Film Festival.

"Mild-mannered everyman Bart Hughes has a great life in New York City. When his wife and child leave for a vacation, Bart stays behind to work on a project that should get him a promotion. Some sort of rodent in his basement starts to bother him and consumes his time. Bart becomes obsessed with it and eventually starts losing his mind while trying to kill the creature, destroying most of his house in the process. The film's title comes from research Bart does and which he shares at a dinner party, stating erroneously that rats have no known origin."

 

 

[Bronty]

Nice.   I enjoy MacLeod's work.    For those unaware he did a number of horror pictures and also a decent amount of video game material.   My favorite Macleod is this.

[The Voord]

CATACOMBS (1988) Movie Poster comp by Lee MacLeod.

Catacombs (also known as Curse IV: The Ultimate Sacrifice) is a 1988 American horror film directed by David Schmoeller and starring Tim Van Patten, Ian Abercrombie, and Laura Schaefer.

"In the 17th century, an order of monks in Italy capture and entomb a demon that has possessed a member of their group. 400 years later, school teacher Elizabeth Magrino (Laura Schaefer) visits the monastery in order to do some research. What she and the current monks do not realize is that the evil hiding within the catacombs has unwittingly been released."

 

[Mycroft]

My last cover by Carlos Alberto Santos : Angélique and the Sultan portuguese book cover (Angélique: No Harém do Sultão)

Edited November 3, 2022 by Mycroft

[buttock]

On 10/31/2022 at 8:58 PM, artdealer said:

Helen Jacobs.

“Florence M. Jacobs - Her Book”

Personal work.

 

Outstanding.