Washington, New York, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri. 1914 - 1964
Pulp illustrator, fantasy imagery
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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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Space Police book dust jacket, 1956
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California, New York, Michigan. 1925 - 1990
Science fiction illustration, comics, video art
New York, Pennsylvania. 1901 - 1952
Theatre and magazine illustration, pulp genre, figure
Illinois. 1900 - 1976
Pulp magazine illustration, "Weird Tales" cover designs
Illinois / Norway. 20th century
Illustration-glamour pin-up, photography
Illinois. 1913 - 1977
Illustration
New York, California. 1922 - 2005
Illustrator-science fiction, humor
New York. 1909 - 1945
Illustrator, pulp action, females
Sculpture, painting
United States. Born 1926
Illustrator-magazine
New York, New Jersey. 1902 - 1983
Illustrator-glamour girl, mural
Germany. 1863 - 1945
Magazine illustration, industrial scene, landscape, portrait painting
United States. 20th century
Pin up girl illustration
California, Oregon. 1894 - 1969
Illustrator-books, fantasy genre
New York, New Jersey, Illinois. 1895 - 1987
Pulp-fiction illustration
United States. 20th century
Pin-up girl illustration
New York. 1918 - 1983
Landscape, genre, illustrator
Connecticut, New York, Ohio. 1882 - 1941
Illustration, genre
California / Australia. 1881 - 1960
Illustrator, painter
New York, Minnesota, Nebraska. 1907 - 1989
Science fiction illustration, sport and frontier themes
New York, Minnesota. 1876 - 1962
Pulp illustration, fantasy, sensationalism
New York. 1889 - 1936
Illustration, commercial art, magazine cover genre
New York, Arizona. 1907 - 1993
Illustration-female figure, genre
New York / United Kingdom. 1890 - 1964
Illustration, figure, genre painting
New York, Kansas. 1910 - 1996
Pin-up girl illustration, paperback cover artist, commercial art
New York, Wisconsin. 1892 - 1966
Illustrator-history, narrative, mural
New York, Minnesota. 1908 - 1995
Pulp magazine illustrator-sexy females
New York, Minnesota. 1880 - 1946
Cartooning, freelance magazine illustration, advertising art
New York / Austria. 1884 - 1963
Science fiction illustration, design
New York. 1878 - 1945
Illustration-pulp action-science fiction
Missouri. 1908 - 1985
Illustration-pin up girls
Illinois, California / France. c.1872 - 1957
Pulp-fiction illustration-fantasy, early landscape painting