Savage Art
(2010 - Underwood Books)

This great book, subtitled 20th CENTURY GENRE AND THE ARTISTS THAT DEFINED IT, has 112 pages and 101 of those are beautiful full-page reproductions of paintings from which pulp-covers were made. There is one additional plate of a single pulp-cover in all its newsstand glory, as, of course, all the rest are just the original art. You'll find a handful more smaller cover images sprinkled through the seven-page introduction to the unexpected pulp phenomenon, its originators, and its most renowned artists. Each painting is captioned quite simply with the name of the artist (if known). Only the name . . . Many have mentioned that not sharing the title of the magazines they particularly adorned was a mis-step, the last piece needed to close the loop for the presentation. (Having just spelled that out, I notice at least a couple of DeSoto paintings erroneously attributed to Sanders...) You'll see that this gathering here includes many, many artists who made their mark producing the colorful, impactful (lurid?), images that made these throwaways memorable. The painters are: Walter Baumhofer (8), Rudolph Belarski, Earle Bergey, Frederick Blakeslee, Hannes Bok, Austin Briggs, Howard V. Brown (3), Margaret Brundage (2)*, Sam Cherry, Rafael DeSoto (6)***, Charles Durant, Ed Emshwiller**, Virgil Finlay (6), Harry Fisk, Hal Foster, George Gross, Robert G. Harris, Laurence Herndon, Richard Lillis, Tom Lovell (2)*, Harold McCauley (7), Stockton Mulford, Harry Parkhurst (2), Frank R. Paul (4), Fred Rodewald, Hubert Rogers, George Rozen (13), Jerome Rozen (4 (one as B.W. Rockey)), Norman Saunders (11)***, Remington Schuyler, William Fulton Soare (2), J. Allen St. John (5)*, Paul Stahr, Dalton Stevens, Lawrence Sterne Stevens (2), H.J. Ward (2)***, and UNKNOWN.

* - Note that Lovell's, Brundage's, and St. John's, 'well-presented' pieces here can all additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that Emshwiller's 'well-presented' piece here cannot additionally be found so in his own collection up on The List.

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

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