Original illustration from 1971, used in a Psychology magazine of the era for a story concerning the future of education by airbrush artist Peter Lloyd.
Artist: Peter Lloyd
1970s
A dazzling and evocative gouache illustration painting for a 1972 edition of Hans Cristian Andersen’s classic tale “The Little Mermaid”. A shining deftly rendered example in the manner of Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac. Work is matted and framed and signed by the artist lower left and titled in the margin lower right.
Artist: Harold Thompson
An other-worldy science fiction themed interior editorial illustration by the British illustrator Peter Lloyd for the December 1977 issue of Chic Magazine. For a story titled Close Encounters In Acapulco by Don Strachan. The story’s tag line reads… “When the world’s top UFO experts met in Mexico, they turned out to be as spacey […]
Artist: Peter Lloyd
Original cover art from a story by Ed Harbarcher from the pages of the July 1973 Adventure for Men . Story is titled I Nailed The Nazis From A Galloping Goose. Artwork is a gouache on illustration boardby the listed illustrator Bruce Minney. Men’s adventure is a genre of magazines that had its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s. Catering to a male audience, these magazines featured pin-up photography and lurid tales of adventure that typically featured wartime feats of daring, exotic travel, or conflict with wild animals.
Artist: Bruce Minney
This good girl art original pastel exemplifies the beauty and personality which kept pin up and glamour a mainstay of calendar imagery even after illustration began giving way to technicolor photography in popularity. This features a fresh faced auburn haired modernist beauty queen from 1975 envisioned by the leading female pin-up illustrator Pearl Frush and published by Gerlach-Barklow of Joliet Illinois.
Artist: Pearl Frush
A well rendered 1970s time capsule painting by Don Ivan Punchatz, for the paperback cover of the 1970 Avon title “Hawksbill Station”. This work is reminiscent of the album cover art from this remarkable time, and speaks to the psychedelic youth culture popular at the time, which moved from the buttoned-up consumerist graphics of the previous generation towards hyper realist imagery thought to heighten the sensations of LSD and marijuana. Work is unframed and mounted on a masonite panel, a copy of the book is included in the sale.
Artist: Don Ivan Punchatz
An erotic and sensational pin-up painting by Mayo Olmstead presumably created for The Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company. The work is mixed media on a Crescent illustration board with pastel used for the central figure and skin tones and oil or acrylic applied in an impasto textured bold technique to the border areas creating an alarming and lively composition. Olmstead was known for his good girl styled beauties, this sun burned she devil on the other hand is entirely of another vernacular.
Artist: Mayo Olmstead
A smartly rendered late 1960s to 1970s gouache illustration painting by Mayo Olmstead presumably created for a Brown & Bigelow pin-up calendar. Olmstead, along with Fritz Willis, Clair Fry, and Bill Layne, was the Saint Paul, Minnesota calendar company’s star staff illustrator during the tail end of the pin-up craze, when a more modern and contemporary idealized beauty was preferred. A classic example of what is now referred to as “Good Girl Art” or GGA by pin-up collectors and pop culture scholars.
Artist: Mayo Olmstead
A well rendered other-wordly original illustration painting for the 1974 First printing of a compilation of H.P. Lovecraft stories for Signet Paperbacks titled ” Night’s Yawning Peal. Work is initialed lower right and is by the well listed science fiction artist Don Ivan Punchatz.
Artist: Don Ivan Punchatz
An other-worldly science fiction themed cover painting for the 1977 Ace Paperback edition of “The Silent Invaders” by Robert Silverberg. A well realized fantasy minded surrealist excursion into another dimension by the prolific and vanguard sci-fi artist Dan Ivan Punchatz. Work is nicely framed and comes with the published Ace paperback edition shown.
Artist: Don Ivan Punchatz
