Paintings and Line Work- Show Off Your Original Pulp Art 1 1

[Pulpvault]

Gorgeous Flanagan!  He was one of the greats.

 

[Pulpvault]

An H.J. Ward I purchased at an auction many years ago, for Spicy Mystery, March 1941.  The auction house was a small company in western Massachusetts.  They also had the Allen Anderson cover for the March 1941 issue of Spicy Western, which a friend of mine won.  The two paintings sold for far in excess of their $1,000 estimates, and when I called the next day to pay for mine, I asked the auction house owner if the consignors had attended the auction.  He told me that they had, and I said that they must have been very happy.  He said they were, but they were also depressed.  When I asked him why they were depressed, he told me that these two paintings, and four others, came out of the attic of the consignor's deceased aunt.  They took the six paintings to the local antique store and was told they were worthless.  So they kept the two they liked best and threw away the other four.  The auctioneer was a friend of the family, and when he saw the two paintings weeks later, he told them that they had value, so they consigned them to him.  But the other four are decaying in a trash dump somewhere in western MA.  Sigh...

[Sarg]

That kind of thing must have gone on all the time. Probably still goes on. 

[Book Guy]

Here is a picture of a piece of vintage original art. The artist is Albert William Severy. He was an Oakland based artist born in 1906. Googling him produce minimal information. I assume this is a piece he did for practice-either a copy of an ADVENTURE cover or maybe something he did to try his hand out in the genre. His signature is on the painting and his name and address on the verso.

Does anybody here recognize a specific ADVENTURE cover he copied? Did he do Pulp or commercial art work that you know about? Google does not indicate that he did, but I'm not a Pulp Specialist so maybe someone else recognizes the name.

The piece came from the East Bay in the SF Bay Area, which makes sense as that is where Severy was born.

I have another piece of mystery art that I'll try and get up later today or tomorrow.

Thanks for any input.

GK

 

[Book Guy]

This piece came from the Estate of a long-time Science Fiction Fan who attended conventions etc for decades. I assume he either bought this piece at a Con or perhaps was given it by the artist. I'm assuming the Artist lived in the Bay Area, but who knows. He or she could have been a Fan Artist who never published professionally. Again, who knows?

The painting is on cardboard or art board. It's approx 11" x 14" in size.

The signature is unreadable to me. The piece has a real Alex Schomburg or later Virgil Finlay look to me, though I don't think it was either. It's very typical for the 1950's, well executed and BRIGHT!

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

GK

[Book Guy]

This last one is a piece of published art. It came from a storage locker in Vallejo California decades ago!

There are some color differences between this piece and the cover of FANTASTIC, but I assume those where added by the printer. The 'smoky' area in front of the skeleton is a stain added after the art was published. You can see some of the printer's/editor's notes in black ink.

I have a copy of the Magazine, but the cover artist is not listed. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks again,

GK

[detective35]

Contact Doug Ellis from the Windy City pulp and paper show. He would be able to help you

[Book Guy]

Thanks. Does he read these boards? GK

[Book Guy]

Thanks to pulpvault the spaceman cover has been identified as Robert Gibson Jones and the Fantastic cover of the skeleton on a flying carpet as possibly by Vernon Kramer.

The ADVENTURE 'cover' was as I thought-not a piece of cover art.

Thanks for the help!

GK

[Pulpvault]

Here's a painting we picked up earlier this year. It's by artist Robert Fuqua, and was used as the back cover for the September 1939 issue of Amazing Stories, showing Arctic Radio Farms. It was originally sold at auction at Chicon (the second World Science Fiction Convention) in 1940.

[FoggyNelson]

On 9/10/2021 at 6:09 PM, Book Guy said:

This piece came from the Estate of a long-time Science Fiction Fan who attended conventions etc for decades. I assume he either bought this piece at a Con or perhaps was given it by the artist. I'm assuming the Artist lived in the Bay Area, but who knows. He or she could have been a Fan Artist who never published professionally. Again, who knows?

The painting is on cardboard or art board. It's approx 11" x 14" in size.

The signature is unreadable to me. The piece has a real Alex Schomburg or later Virgil Finlay look to me, though I don't think it was either. It's very typical for the 1950's, well executed and BRIGHT!

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

GK

Cool outer space theme👍‼️❤️😷

[Book Guy]

Thanks!

[FoggyNelson]

On 9/10/2021 at 6:14 PM, Book Guy said:

This last one is a piece of published art. It came from a storage locker in Vallejo California decades ago!

There are some color differences between this piece and the cover of FANTASTIC, but I assume those where added by the printer. The 'smoky' area in front of the skeleton is a stain added after the art was published. You can see some of the printer's/editor's notes in black ink.

I have a copy of the Magazine, but the cover artist is not listed. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks again,

GK

This cover is cool

[RedFury]

Hannes Bok

The original art for H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow over Innsmouth" from Weird Tales, January 1942.

 

      

 

 

Edited December 18, 2021 by RedFury

[Pulpvault]

Here's a piece that I've owned for over 15 years which I finally was first able to identify last night.  I picked this up in 2005 from my friend, Jerry Weist, who'd acquired it from Forry Ackerman.  Although neither of us could identify it, we both felt that it was likely from the pulp, Planet Stories, since along the side of the board was written "Compliments of W. Scott Peacock."  Peacock was editor of Planet Stories for many years.

Last night, while going through some issues of Planet Stories, I finally managed to find it.  The art ran in the Summer 1944 issue, illustrating "One Against the Stars" by Vaseleos Garson (pseudonym of William J. Garson).  Doolin had a long career in the pulps before moving to comics, and he did art for both for Fiction House.

[Pulpflakes]

On 9/11/2021 at 3:39 AM, Book Guy said:

This piece came from the Estate of a long-time Science Fiction Fan who attended conventions etc for decades. I assume he either bought this piece at a Con or perhaps was given it by the artist. I'm assuming the Artist lived in the Bay Area, but who knows. He or she could have been a Fan Artist who never published professionally. Again, who knows?

The painting is on cardboard or art board. It's approx 11" x 14" in size.

The signature is unreadable to me. The piece has a real Alex Schomburg or later Virgil Finlay look to me, though I don't think it was either. It's very typical for the 1950's, well executed and BRIGHT!

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

GK

 

 

 

Doug already identified the artist. The painting is the cover of the Jan 1951 issue of Fantastic Adventures.

[buttock]

On 12/17/2021 at 10:54 PM, RedFury said:

Hannes Bok

The original art for H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow over Innsmouth" from Weird Tales, January 1942.

 

      

 

 

Spectacular Todd.  

[detective35]

On 12/17/2021 at 11:54 PM, RedFury said:

Hannes Bok

The original art for H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow over Innsmouth" from Weird Tales, January 1942.

 

      

 

 

Awesome!!!!

[ThousandHeadedMan]

On 12/17/2021 at 11:54 PM, RedFury said:

Hannes Bok

The original art for H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow over Innsmouth" from Weird Tales, January 1942.

 

      

 

 

Great pick-up!  Definitely one of my faves from Gary Munson’s art collection…

[Book Guy]

I knew Gary, though not well and was shocked to hear he had died. There has been very little posted about his collection being sold off. Does anybody know much about him? What he died from? What he did for a living? etc./ I used to send Catalogs to him and would see him when I exhibited at Book Fairs. We always had a chat about Bookish subjects, but I realized I didn't know much ABOUT him (and probably the same for him about me!.