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Los Angeles Herald-Express

A strongly rendered, machine age/industrial revolution inspired modernist 1935 oil painting by Thomas Tyrone Comfort, used as the cover for The Los Angeles Herald & Express; Oct.19, 1936. Comfort worked as an art deco-era muralist and illustrator. His work evokes the spirit of the WPA movement, his brilliant career was cut short in 1939 when the artist passed away at the young age of 30.

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Artist: Tyrone Comfort

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Los Angeles Herald-Express, machine age, modernist, pulp, science fiction, streamline, The Golden Gallery, Tyrone Comfort, WPA
Added to Gallery: September 10, 2008

 

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