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Harold McCauley

Commercial Advertising Art by Harold McCauley In the 1960s, after a successful career as a pulp, and later, paperback cover artist, Harold McCauley was faced with the reality of a dwindling market for his brand of sci-fi and fantasy illustration. Moving away from freelance work, the artist found employment as a company illustrator for The […]

Seaplanes

Artist: Harold McCauley
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, aviation, Commercial Illustration, gouache, Harold McCauley
Added to Gallery: September 23, 2020

This dramatic, futuristic sci-fi interior pulp illustration was created by Harold McCauley for an as-of-yet unidentified Ziff-Davis title.

The Baby Factory

Artist: Harold McCauley
Price:  $2,950.00

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

Death Makes a Mistake is an eerie, dark, and foreboding interior pulp illustration by Harold McCauley which appeared in the January 1943 issue of the sci-fi/fantasy pulp magazine Amazing Stories accompanying the P.F. Costello story of the same title. The caption beneath reads “Reggie looked at the second rose, and then he knew…!” Nicely matted and framed under glass, this […]

Death Makes A Mistake

Artist: Harold McCauley
Price:  $2,350.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1940s, Golden Age, Harold McCauley, lurid, original illustration art, original interior illustration
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2018

Harold McCauley created this tense, action-packed, gritty, and dramatic illustration for an-as-of-yet unidentified pulp title, circa 1940s.

Encounter In A Sinister Place

Artist: Harold McCauley
Price:   $1,650.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1940s, Golden Age, Harold McCauley, lurid, macabre, orientalist, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp, skull
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2018

Harold McCauley created this historical Revolutionary War image of a Minuteman using coded communication to alert the Colonial forces of British troop movement as cover art for the May/June 1975 issue of Signal magazine, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) trade publication. AFCEA is a non-profit group which emerged from the Signal Corp after World War II that serves the information […]

Signal

Artist: Harold McCauley
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: AFCEA, Harold McCauley
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2017

This large signed oil painting with an erotic science fiction/fantasy theme was exhibited at 1976’s OrlandoCon, an event that in many ways seems to be the template for todays Comic Con. McCauley was featured as an honored guest at the Florida comic convention, and unveiled previously unseen works that were either painted and unpublished in […]

The Queen of The Apes

Artist: Harold McCauley
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Harold McCauley, OrlandoCon, pulp, sci-fi
Added to Gallery: January 25, 2017

  These four comical and deftly rendered gouache illustration paintings show four faces of the 1950s Texaco Man. These explore the overly quizzical and confused faces made by a service station attendant tasked with describing the particulars of car troubles that caused distress for 1950s highway tourists. Together, they hint at the dishonesty associated with […]

Four Faces of the Texaco Man

Artist: Harold McCauley
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, advertising, Harold McCauley, petroliana, Texaco
Added to Gallery: January 16, 2017

In the 1960s, after a successful career as a pulp and later paperback cover artist, Harold McCauley was faced with the reality of a dwindling market for his brand of sci-fi and fantasy illustration. Moving away from freelance work, the artist found employment as a company illustrator for The Martin Marietta Corporation, an American manufacturing company […]

Ground Control

Artist: Harold McCauley
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Commercial Illustration, Harold McCauley, Martin Marietta, pulp, Space
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2017

In this original oil on canvas pulp painting by Harold McCauley, used as the cover for the November, 1954 pulp digest, Imaginative Tales #2, a near nude runaway pin-up girl seductively rides a speeding red bullet – with the next stop being the moon… Created to illustrate an interior serialized novella story by Charles F. […]

The Moon or Bust!

Artist: Harold McCauley
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, erotic, fantasy, glamour, Golden Age, Harold McCauley, machine age, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, pulp, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: September 6, 2016

This oil on canvasboard painting by Harold (H.W.) McCauley was created for use as the cover for the 1959 Nightstand digest pulp novel Carnival of Lust by J.X. Williams. In this offering a near-nude harem girl flirtatiously eyes a martini drinking genie. The painting is a dynamic and well-rendered example by this prolific and gifted American illustrator, and a great artifact […]

Carnival Of Lust

Artist: Harold McCauley
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: erotic, Golden Age, Harold McCauley, magazine cover, nude, original cover art, original illustration art, pin up, pulp, risque
Added to Gallery: September 2, 2016

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