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The Baby Factory

Artist:Harold McCauley
Date:1940s
Medium:Mixed media on illustration board
Dimensions:Sight Size 13" X 17" Framed 24" X 29 1/2"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Interior illustration of unknown usage
Price: 1950
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Framed and matted under glass view

This dramatic, futuristic sci-fi interior pulp illustration was created by Harold McCauley for an as-of-yet unidentified Ziff-Davis title. The image shows a nervous gentleman approaching a modernist machine-age baby factory – an ominous mid-century sperm bank it appears – as a smoking figure with classic new father anxiety gazes up at the image of a sparkling infant which lights up the sky over the factory grounds. Really well articulated and conceived, in a classic over-the-top pulp fiction aesthetic that recalls the work of McCauley’s contemporary Virgil Finlay. Illustration has been professionally matted and framed under glass and remains in a fine state of original conservation.

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The Baby Factory

Artist: Harold McCauley
Price:  1950

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1940s, fantasy, Golden Age, Harold McCauley, lurid, machine age, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp, sci-fi, science fiction, Ziff-Davis
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2018

 

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