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Painter John Berkey was unquestionably one of the leading figures working during the golden era of science fiction. Most identified with his posters for the original Star Wars film, Berkey’s work was instrumental creating the image we have in our minds eye when we picture “outer space.” A prolific illustrator of sci-fi book covers, the technically adept artist also was employed […]

Tales of the Dying Earth

Artist: John Berkey
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Tagged With: John Berkey, paperback, pulp, sci-fi, space exploration
Added to Gallery: February 5, 2016

John Berkey is remembered today as one of the leading figures of the golden era of science fiction. Most identified with his posters for the original Star Wars film, Berkey was a technically brilliant commercial illustrator and his vision is what we see in our minds eye when we picture “outer space.” A prolific illustrator of […]

Immortality Option

Artist: John Berkey
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Tagged With: John Berkey, paperback, pulp, saturn, sci-fi, science fiction, space exploration
Added to Gallery: February 5, 2016

  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 […]

Close Encounters In Acapulco

Artist: Peter Lloyd
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Tagged With: 1970s, Chic Magazine, Hippie, Larry Flynt, Peter Lloyd, sci-fi, science fiction
Added to Gallery: September 11, 2015

A just spectacular otherworldly sci-fi pulp illustration painting by Harold McCauley used as the cover for the December, 1954 edition of Imagination Stories of Science And Fantasy. Titled 21st Century Girl Walking Pet on the table of contents page in the included magazine, the artist used his wife Grace as the model, a source 8″ by […]

21st Century Girl Walking Pet

Artist: Harold McCauley
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Tagged With: alien, Harold McCauley, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, pulp, risque, sci-fi, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 2, 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
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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

  A spectacular, large format, science fiction painting by Dean Ellis which was first used as the paperback cover for the 1970 Corgi published compilation of science fiction writing, SF-5 New Writings in Science Fiction, one of a series of 30 British science fiction anthologies released from 1964 to 1977 under the successive editorships of […]

SF-5

Artist: Dean Ellis
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Tagged With: Dean Ellis, mid-century modern, nude, paperback, Ray Bradbury, sci-fi, science fiction
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

    This majestic and otherworldly oil-on-board by the New York illustrator A.D. Rahn is a reflection on the decadence of the Broadway stage circa 1915. A beautiful and haughty blonde, whose bobbed hair and dropped waist gown evoke Irene Castle, is seen emerging from backstage with the help of a green imp, her own high […]

Making her Appearance

Artist: A.D. Rahn
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Tagged With: 1910s, A.D. Rahn, american, art nouveau, flapper, Irene Castle, new york city, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pin up, sci-fi, theater
Added to Gallery: June 13, 2014

      The rare surviving cover painting by Frank Paul for the May 1935 edition of Wonder Stories, a futuristic sci-fi pulp title published by Hugo Gernsback. A detailed machine age science minded scene illustrating the interior story “Human Ants” by J. Harvey Haggard. Pictured in this bustling scene is the flight of altruist […]

Wonder Stories – Human Ants

Artist: Frank Paul
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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Frank Paul, machine age, magazine cover, original cover art, pulp, sci-fi, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: April 20, 2014

 This unusual example of a science fiction themed menace pulp illustration by the talented artist Lawrence Sterne Stevens was created as cover art for the July 1948 issue of Fantastic Novels.  Renowned for his grotesque imaginative horror art, and often compared to contemporary Virgil Finlay, Stevens was named after his father–a deeply religious preacher–and signed […]

Alien Menace Pulp Cover

Artist: Lawrence Sterne Stevens
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Tagged With: damsel in distress, Fantastic Novels, Lawrence Sterne Stevens, menace, original cover art, pulp, sci-fi, The Golden Gallery, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: January 24, 2014

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