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

[Surfing Alien]

This thread needs a bump and I just got some interiors, so...

 

Leland Gustavson's original interior art for "The Riddle of the Beggar on Horseback" by Stuart Palmer. A Hildegard Withers short story. It's dated 1940 on the back. Probably appeared in Blue Book as I got several of his interiors that originally came from his estate and most were Blue Book. 

 

I kept the handwritten title and instructions within the mat as it was symmetrical and I like how it shows the process a little as well as the image.

 

The man could do amazing things with just a crayon on window shade!

 

[Cat-Man_America]

I rarely venture out at night.  Took a look around the boards and realized there's a Pulp forum that's been here awhile (D'oh!). 

I'm sure most here have seen orig. pulp art from my collection in GA, but humor me (you can always pretend it's new to you). 

George J. Rozen (June 1st, '42 Shadow)...

George J. Rozen (June 15th, '42 Shadow)...

Also, there's the Jerome G. Rozen recreation of twin brother George's last Shadow pulp cover (Summer '49)... 

The disappearing Cat is just a Shadow of his former self!

(animation courtesy of Flea Marquette).

Edited August 18, 2022 by Cat-Man_America
ale added!

[Cat-Man_America]

Technically not a pulp cover, but a pulp era Alex Schomburg science fiction dust jacket painting...

In frame and with the novel's DJ...

Spoiler

Heritage's image photography does more justice to this than I can achieve with my iPad. 

I don't own a copy of the novel, but here's an image of the DJ...

 

 

 

Edited August 19, 2022 by Cat-Man_America
ale added!

[Book Guy]

I don't think I've posted this before, apologies if I have. I ran across it today. It's a piece of Clark Ashton Smith original art, The 2nd pictures is some text from the photocopy of a letter that accompanies it.

[Cat-Man_America]

Margaret Brundage painting in my collection (in spoiler). It isn't obscene by any stretch of the imagination and was imaged by Heritage, but it keeps the art PG friendly...  

Spoiler

 

[Surfing Alien]

Another Leland Gustavon Blue Book pulp interior done in crayon on window shade that I just got a mat cut for.

The window shade fabric literally creates shading when they filled in backgrounds. Pretty damn clever (and cheap!)

Simple but plenty dynamic and i'll take any drawing at sea 

[Boric Gold]

I know heritage has a couple of illustrated auctions every year...what are the primary marketplaces for these paintings? I know most are probably out of my price range but would love to window shop....

[Pulpvault]

In keeping with the frigid temps by us today, and in sympathy for those of my family and friends back home in the Buffalo area dealing with a massive amount of snow, I thought I'd post this pulp painting that I acquired in a trade with a friend several years ago. By Chicago-based artist Robert Gibson Jones, it was the cover to the November 1949 issue of Fantastic Adventures, illustrating "Queen of the Ice Men" by S.M. Tenneshaw (a Ziff-Davis house name).

[Joshua33]

On 8/17/2022 at 10:18 PM, Cat-Man_America said:

I rarely venture out at night.  Took a look around the boards and realized there's a Pulp forum that's been here awhile (D'oh!). 

I'm sure most here have seen orig. pulp art from my collection in GA, but humor me (you can always pretend it's new to you). 

George J. Rozen (June 1st, '42 Shadow)...

George J. Rozen (June 15th, '42 Shadow)...

Also, there's the Jerome G. Rozen recreation of twin brother George's last Shadow pulp cover (Summer '49)... 

The disappearing Cat is just a Shadow of his former self!

(animation courtesy of Flea Marquette).

Absolutely amazing collection. Those are just stunning.

[RedFury]

In the past few months I've picked up three paintings by Weird Tales and Arkham House artist Lee Brown Coye.

This one is an oil painting from 1937.  Coye won first prize in the 1937 Associated Artists of Syracuse exhibition for an oil painting called "Backyard", and I think this may be it.  The grim, murderous subject matter of this painting presages his macabre work to come.  He began illustrating weird fiction stories in 1944's Sleep No More anthology, and in 1945 issues of Weird Tales, and continued these types of illustrations into the 1970s.

[RedFury]

This is Lee Brown Coye's watercolor painting from 1940 called The Old D.L. & W. Station.  The real train station was built in Syracuse NY in 1877 and was demolished in 1940 when the tracks were elevated in the city.  Coye visited the site a made preliminary sketches before the demolition.  In this piece he contrasts the old with the new: the old train and station with the then modern automobile on the left.  The painting was exhibited at the Whitney Museum in NYC in 1941.  Another of Coye's paintings, Dark House, from the 1939 Whitney exhibit was purchased by The Met, where it still resides.

[RedFury]

I don't know much about this 1944 landscape watercolor by Lee Brown Coye.  There's no information on the piece other than the signature and date, and the painting appears to be a completely unknown work by Coye.

The image reminds me of Lovecraft's story, The Colour Out of Space, with the lonely farmhouse, what looks like "blasted heath", and the vibrant vegetation.  It's certainly a stretch to say it illustrates that story.  But on the other hand, Coye did begin to illustrate Lovecraft stories the same year this was painted (1944).  Regardless of its true subject, I love it.

[FoggyNelson]

On 12/4/2022 at 9:28 AM, RedFury said:

In the past few months I've picked up three paintings by Weird Tales and Arkham House artist Lee Brown Coye.

This one is an oil painting from 1937.  Coye won first prize in the 1937 Associated Artists of Syracuse exhibition for an oil painting called "Backyard", and I think this may be it.  The grim, murderous subject matter of this painting presages his macabre work to come.  He began illustrating weird fiction stories in 1944's Sleep No More anthology, and in 1945 issues of Weird Tales, and continued these types of illustrations into the 1970s.

Like it a lot👍‼️🥓

[Pulpvault]

For Morey Monday, I thought I'd post a painting by pulp artist Leo Morey which we acquired in a trade about a half dozen years ago.  This one appeared as the cover to the December 1936 issue of Amazing Stories, illustrating "Space Marines and the Slavers" by Bob Olsen.

[FoggyNelson]

On 12/4/2022 at 9:40 AM, RedFury said:

I don't know much about this 1944 landscape watercolor by Lee Brown Coye.  There's no information on the piece other than the signature and date, and the painting appears to be a completely unknown work by Coye.

The image reminds me of Lovecraft's story, The Colour Out of Space, with the lonely farmhouse, what looks like "blasted heath", and the vibrant vegetation.  It's certainly a stretch to say it illustrates that story.  But on the other hand, Coye did begin to illustrate Lovecraft stories the same year this was painted (1944).  Regardless of its true subject, I love it.

This art grows on me‼️❤️

[RedFury]

Me too.  When I bought it I wasn't sure I was going to keep it.  Now it's hanging above my fireplace. 

[Bunky Brian]

On 7/29/2020 at 11:35 AM, detective35 said:

The Shadow - The Creeping Death - Jan. 15, 1933
21” x 30” (Oil on canvas)

I remember saying to a few people,  if I could have one Shadow Painting (or any pulp painting ever done), “The Creeping Death” would be the one.  

When it came up for auction at Heritage I couldn’t believe it, and I eventually ended up with it.  A heartfelt “thank you” to Ferd Bernjak, Glynn Craine, and Todd Hignite who helped me obtain it!

Dwight
 

 

[Pulpvault]

Earlier this year, at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, I was fortunate enough to acquire the painting used as the cover for the March 1911 issue of Adventure. It illustrated the first installment of the novel, "Prester John," written by John Buchan. Many thanks to Fred Taraba of Taraba Illustration who had this at his booth.

Unfortunately, the 111 years since it had been painted had not been kind to it. Among other things, the canvas had been removed from its stretcher bars and glued to board, which had gotten wet at some point resulting in mold. So I took it to The Conservation Center in Chicago to do their magic, and I picked up the restored painting earlier today. I took a quick shot of it with my phone to post here; the way it looked when I first acquired it is also posted.

[plady69]

On 12/20/2022 at 6:38 PM, Pulpvault said:

Earlier this year, at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, I was fortunate enough to acquire the painting used as the cover for the March 1911 issue of Adventure. It illustrated the first installment of the novel, "Prester John," written by John Buchan. Many thanks to Fred Taraba of Taraba Illustration who had this at his booth.

Unfortunately, the 111 years since it had been painted had not been kind to it. Among other things, the canvas had been removed from its stretcher bars and glued to board, which had gotten wet at some point resulting in mold. So I took it to The Conservation Center in Chicago to do their magic, and I picked up the restored painting earlier today. I took a quick shot of it with my phone to post here; the way it looked when I first acquired it is also posted.

Wow, they did a great job!

[Joshua33]

On 12/20/2022 at 6:38 PM, Pulpvault said:

Earlier this year, at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, I was fortunate enough to acquire the painting used as the cover for the March 1911 issue of Adventure. It illustrated the first installment of the novel, "Prester John," written by John Buchan. Many thanks to Fred Taraba of Taraba Illustration who had this at his booth.

Unfortunately, the 111 years since it had been painted had not been kind to it. Among other things, the canvas had been removed from its stretcher bars and glued to board, which had gotten wet at some point resulting in mold. So I took it to The Conservation Center in Chicago to do their magic, and I picked up the restored painting earlier today. I took a quick shot of it with my phone to post here; the way it looked when I first acquired it is also posted.

Simply amazing how much better it looks.