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Viridi, Goddess of Nature, Other Worlds Science Stories magazine cover
Auction: 10/26/2013
Lot: 78219
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Virgil Finlay AUCTION RECORDS
1914 Rochester, New York - 1971 Westbury, Connecticut. Known for: Pulp illustrator, abstraction.
From Rochester, New York, Virgil Finlay has been described as "the most popular interior illustrator ever to work in science fiction and fantasy magazines." (170). This reputation grew from the late... Read full biography
From Rochester, New York, Virgil Finlay has been described as "the most popular interior illustrator ever to work in science fiction and fantasy magazines." (170). This reputation grew from the late 1930s. Finlay's method, influenced by the art of Gustave Dore, was to use a lithographic pen and ink... Read full biography
From Rochester, New York, Virgil Finlay has been described as "the most popular interior illustrator ever to work in science fiction and fantasy magazines." (170). This reputation grew from the late 1930s. Finlay's method, influenced by the art of Gustave Dore, was to use a lithographic pen and ink to produce stipple art to create precise groupings of black dots that created a photographic effect. For each one of these interior illustrations, he earned about ten dollars and about one-hundred... Read full biography
From Rochester, New York, Virgil Finlay has been described as "the most popular interior illustrator ever to work in science fiction and fantasy magazines." (170). This reputation grew from the late 1930s. Finlay's method, influenced by the art of Gustave Dore, was to use a lithographic pen and ink to produce stipple art to create precise groupings of black dots that created a photographic effect. For each one of these interior illustrations, he earned about ten dollars and about one-hundred dollars for cover art. During the Depression years of the early 1930s, he attended art school at night, studying portraiture and figurative painting. To earn money, he worked as a house painter, radio assembly-line laborer and clerk in a stockroom. He... Read full biography
From Rochester, New York, Virgil Finlay has been described as "the most popular interior illustrator ever to work in science fiction and fantasy magazines." (170). This reputation grew from the late 1930s. Finlay's method, influenced by the art of Gustave Dore, was to use a lithographic pen and ink to produce stipple art to create precise groupings of black dots that created a photographic effect. For each one of these interior illustrations, he earned about ten dollars and about one-hundred dollars for cover art. During the Depression years of the early 1930s, he attended art school at night, studying portraiture and figurative painting. To earn money, he worked as a house painter, radio assembly-line laborer and clerk in a stockroom. He was an avid reader of Weird Tales, a pulp-fiction publication, and in 1935 submit... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeSuper Science Stories February 1943 "Circle of Youth" Cover Painting Original Art (Popular Publicati...
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeThe Time Tombs, Worlds of If Science Fiction magazine cover, March 1963
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeFmous Fantastic Mysteries September 1943 "Doorway Into Time" Cover Painting Original Art (Munsey, 1...
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