Pulp Art - Original Cover Paintings for the Great American Pulp Magazines
(1997- Gramercy)

(by Robert Lesser) This 191-page book has 86 featured large reproductions, almost all of them beautiful original paintings, and another ten pages with a couple of images together. A lot of space has been given to the text, with chapters called: Populist Culture And Art, Science Fiction-Science Fact-And-Fantasy-Painted Answers, The New Knights, The Noblest Savage, Ladies In Terror, To Dare The Devil-Aviation-War-And-Western Art, Vox Populi-Letters To The Pulps' Editors 1929-46, along with a pulp paintings collectors guide, artists' biographies, bibliography and an index. Interspersed throughout are a number of not-insignificant essays by other luminary contributors: The Pulps-Their Weaknesses Were Their Strengths, The Cover Artists And Their Publishers, Yes-I Was There, When Pulp Art Was In Flower, Collecting Pulp Paintings-Dramatic Imagery And Color, The Science Fiction Pulps, The Pulps And Their Illustrators-A Brief Survey, The Lure Of The Pulps-An Artist's Perspective, Remembering Rafael de Soto, Important Pulp Paintings In The Burroughs Collection, A Conversation With J. Allen St. John-Dean Of Fantasy Illustrators, The Paper They're Printed On, Painting The Story, The Art That Dared To Be Wild, Remembering Norman Saunders, The Cover Art Of The Air-War Pulps, Editing The Western Pulps, and Where Have All The Paintings Gone ?. A number of smaller images can be found spotted on those pages. The 'well-presented' artists here are: Allen Anderson (3)***, Walter Baumhofer (4), Rudolph Belarski (6), Earle Bergey (2), Frederick Blakeslee (6), Hannes Bok (3), Howard V. Brown, Magaret Brundage (2)*, Edd Cartier**, Sidney Case, Rafael DeSoto (8)***, John Drew, Virgil Finlay (4), John Giunta, George Gross, Laurence Herndon (3), Winslow Homer, John Newton Howitt, Harry Parkhurst (3), Frank R. Paul (3), Hubert Rogers, George Rozen (7), Jerome Rozen, H. W. Scott, Norman Saunders (6)**, William Fulton Soare, J. Allen St. John (6)***, Herbert Morton Stoops, H.J. Ward (3)*, Edgar Franklin Wittmack, and N.C. Wyeth (2).

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Brundage, and Ward, can additionally be found so in their own collections farther up The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Cartier, and Saunders, cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that in regards to the 'well-presented' pieces here by Anderson, DeSoto, and St. John, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

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