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This complex, detailed, and eerie surreal painting by Dean Ellis was created as cover art for Red Tide by D.D. Chapman & Delores Lehman Tarzan (Ace Science Fiction Special #2). The painting shows a mutated reptilian scientist who is one of the last humans surviving in a dystopian underwater near-future. Post-apocalyptic scenarios where humans struggled to adapt to […]

Red Tide

Artist: Dean Ellis
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Ace Books, Dean Ellis, original cover art, paperback, pulp, sci-fi, science fiction, scuba
Added to Gallery: November 14, 2018

This illustration artwork by Raymond Bayless shows an underwater space station with glowing jellyfish and Atlantis-like lost underground city.

The Watchers

Artist: Raymond Bayless
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Ray Bradbury, Raymond Bayless, sci-fi, science fiction, space exploration
Added to Gallery: November 8, 2018

    Large and stark, this gouache on board artwork by an obscure pulp & science fiction illustrator using the name Ross appeared as the cover the the May 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction illustrating a story titled “The Man Who Could Not Stop.” The story tells the tale of a […]

The Man Who Could Not Stop

Artist: Ross
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Fantasy And Science Fiction, menace, pulp, russian, sci-fi, science fiction, space exploration
Added to Gallery: July 6, 2018

This fabulous other-wordly cover painting by the important American genre artist Paul Lehr was created for the July,1972 issue of Occult Magazine.

Occult

Artist: Paul Lehr
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: black magic, magazine cover, original cover art, Paul Lehr, Popular Library, pulp, sci-fi, science fiction
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2018

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  $2,065.00

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

Dating to the WPA-era, when many American artists turned their attention to the perils of modernity, urbanization, and the consequences of industrialization, this oil on canvas fine art painting takes a surreal and bleak apocalyptic look at a cityscape (likely New York City) being set upon by a serpent and the wolves that act as […]

City In Ruins

Artist: Unknown American Artist
Price: $2,500.00  $1,750.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1930s, american, Cityscape, fantasy, fine art, Golden Age, new york city, outsider art, science fiction, WPA
Added to Gallery: December 20, 2017

A modernist abstract mixed media painting by Virgil Finlay, who was an important prolific American pulp and science fiction illustrator. Signed and dated 1965 lower right and titled on verso #51. Executed in a colorful and abstract manner with raised translucent areas, oil paint and pen and ink. Smartly framed and ready to hang.

Abstraction #51

Artist: Virgil Finlay
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, abstract, american, illustration, modernist, psychedelic, pulp, science fiction, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: November 6, 2017

Joseph Pignone created this haunting and just mesmerizing gouache illustration painting for the July 1934 cover of Radio-Craft magazine. In this visually commanding original cover illustration from the machine age era of science and industry and modernist design aesthetics, a blind flapper girl with short bobbed hair holds a radio device that was created to guide the blind. Includes a printers proof tear sheet of the published magazine.

Radio Device Guides The Blind

Artist: Joseph Pignone
Price: $4,500.00  $3,150.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, flapper, Joseph Pignone, machine age, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, pulp, Radio, sci-fi, science fiction
Added to Gallery: June 29, 2017

This dazzling and otherworldly painting by Virgil Finlay appeared on the cover of the July 1954 issue of Fate magazine, a special issue solely focused on the powers of Hypnotism. A scarce original pulp cover illustration from this long running title, this was for many years part of the storied collection of Robert Weinberg. Work is nicely matted and framed […]

How To Hypnotize

Artist: Virgil Finlay
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Fate Magazine, Golden Age, Hypnotism, lurid, magazine cover, original cover art, pulp, risque, sci-fi, science fiction, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: February 28, 2017

A technically brilliant piece, this oil on masonite panel painting is an otherworldly science fiction creation by the American artist, illustrator, and writer Raymond Bayless. A finely detailed piece with spectacular space exploration imagery, it presents two space crafts passing soundlessly between asteroids. Planets sit in the distance as countless stars and far off galaxies […]

Twin Crafts

Artist: Raymond Bayless
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: sci-fi, science fiction, Space, space exploration, space travel
Added to Gallery: November 8, 2016

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