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Burned Prairies

Artist:Sam Cherry
Date:1943
Medium:Oil on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions:Sight size 21" X 30"
Condition:Excellent restored condition
Original Use:Cover for Thrilling Ranch Stories - February, 1943
Full view
Full view
The artist's signature lower left
The artist’s signature lower left
The artwork as it appeared on the cover of Thrilling Ranch Stories - February, 1943
The artwork as it appeared on the cover of Thrilling Ranch Stories – February, 1943

An action packed damsel in distress fire rescue pulp cover painting by Sam Cherry for the February 1943 issue of Thrilling Ranch Stories – Romantic Stories of The West. A fearless square jawed handsome cowboy emerges from a burning building with a damsel in his arms, his pistol a blazin’, as our felled damsel struggles to regain her senses in this epic western scene illustrating the interior story Burned Prairies.

Grapefruit Moon Gallery recently purchased seven 1940s pulp cover paintings from an east coast collection belonging to a former employee of the publisher. Painting has been stretched on new pine back stretcher bars and displays very well.

Detail
Detail
Verso view of old back canvas re-stretched onto new stretcher bars
Verso view of old back canvas re-stretched onto new stretcher bars
Verso publication usage notations - detail
Verso publication usage notations – detail

Burned Prairies

Artist: Sam Cherry

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, cowboy, damsel in distress, Golden Age, magazine cover, Old West, original cover art, pulp, Sam Cherry, Thrilling Ranch, western
Added to Gallery: July 15, 2016

 

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