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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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Keywords (30)
Art Method
- •Comic Book, Comic Strip Artist, Comic Figures
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Stipple, Stippling
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Comic Strip/Book Humor
- •Female Face and Figure
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Humor, Whimsy
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Outer Space, Science Fiction
- •Self-Portrait
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Pulp Fiction Illustrator
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings