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1921 New Jersey - 2005. Known for: Illustration-pulp book covers.
Robert Maguire, born in 1921 in New Jersey, painted over six-hundred paperback covers during a more than fifty-year career, mainly featuring luridly sexual females, for publishers including Pocket,... Read full biography
Robert Maguire, born in 1921 in New Jersey, painted over six-hundred paperback covers during a more than fifty-year career, mainly featuring luridly sexual females, for publishers including Pocket, Dell, Ace, Harper, Avon, Silhouette, Ballantine, Pyramid, Bantam, Lion, Berkeley, Beacon and Monarch.... Read full biography
Robert Maguire, born in 1921 in New Jersey, painted over six-hundred paperback covers during a more than fifty-year career, mainly featuring luridly sexual females, for publishers including Pocket, Dell, Ace, Harper, Avon, Silhouette, Ballantine, Pyramid, Bantam, Lion, Berkeley, Beacon and Monarch. He made three to four thousand dollars per cover from Pocketbooks, for a time earning over one hundred thousand dollars a year. He also did work in watercolor for Norcross Greeting Cards, including... Read full biography
Robert Maguire, born in 1921 in New Jersey, painted over six-hundred paperback covers during a more than fifty-year career, mainly featuring luridly sexual females, for publishers including Pocket, Dell, Ace, Harper, Avon, Silhouette, Ballantine, Pyramid, Bantam, Lion, Berkeley, Beacon and Monarch. He made three to four thousand dollars per cover from Pocketbooks, for a time earning over one hundred thousand dollars a year. He also did work in watercolor for Norcross Greeting Cards, including Christmas cards of Santa Claus. As a child, he was taught to draw by his father, an architectural draftsman, with drawing "contests" between them to see which of them could better draw a newspaper photo. His education at Duke University, in Durham,... Read full biography
Robert Maguire, born in 1921 in New Jersey, painted over six-hundred paperback covers during a more than fifty-year career, mainly featuring luridly sexual females, for publishers including Pocket, Dell, Ace, Harper, Avon, Silhouette, Ballantine, Pyramid, Bantam, Lion, Berkeley, Beacon and Monarch. He made three to four thousand dollars per cover from Pocketbooks, for a time earning over one hundred thousand dollars a year. He also did work in watercolor for Norcross Greeting Cards, including Christmas cards of Santa Claus. As a child, he was taught to draw by his father, an architectural draftsman, with drawing "contests" between them to see which of them could better draw a newspaper photo. His education at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, was interrupted by World War II, when he served as a machine-gunner in Italy with the 88th Infantry. After... Read full biography
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Keywords (22)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Female Face and Figure
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Pin-Ups, Pin-Up Girls
- •Science Fiction
Art Association
- •Society of Illustrators-
Art Teacher
- •Frank Reilly
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Illustration Specialty
- •Pulp Fiction Illustrator
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Society of Illustrators