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This gouache illustration painting appeared on the cover of Naked Sinner, the 1959 “savage novel of a wild call girl and her shocking immoral affairs”.

Naked Sinner

Artist: American Artist

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: Bart Frame, Bedside Book, erotic, Greenleaf Publishing, Naked Sinner, nude, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pin up, pulp, risque, sleaze
Added to Gallery: April 11, 2018

This original oil on canvas painting, used as the cover for the January 1955 pulp digest, Imaginative Tales #3, shows a Vaudeville era magician and his pin-up girl assistant working a crowd and casting spells and presumably making things disappear. This was created to illustrate the interior story by Robert Bloch, titled Black Magic Holiday, […]

Black Magic Holiday

Artist: Harold McCauley

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Greenleaf Publishing, Harold McCauley, Imaginative Tales, magazine cover, Magic, original cover art, pin up, pulp, Robert Block, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 1, 2015

  This original oil on canvas painting, used as the cover for the January 1955 pulp digest,  Imagination – Stories Of Science And Fantasy, offers a whimsical mid-century futuristic look at the then far-off year of 1990. The 1950s were abundant with delightfully optimistic and utopian visions of what future life would look like – works like […]

Traffic Mishap, 1990

Artist: Harold McCauley

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, automobilia, Futuristic, Greenleaf Publishing, Harold McCauley, pin up, pulp, sci-fi, science fiction, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: April 28, 2015

 

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