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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

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, 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

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, 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

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

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

With a sense of whimsy, and surreal emotionality, 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 a team of explorers in yellow space suits recently landed on an alien planet when […]

The Exploration

Artist: Raymond Bayless

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

A technically superb piece, this oil on masonite panel painting is a phantasmagorical science fiction creation by the American artist, illustrator, and writer Raymond Bayless. Finely detailed with fantastical, dream-like space exploration imagery, this painting illustrates a pirate ship navigating its way through the uncharted starry expanse of space. The rudders and masts steer the […]

Ship of Dreams

Artist: Raymond Bayless

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

Boldly depicting a failed expedition to the Red planet, 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 a dilapidated spaceship that has crash landed onto the surface of Mars, its antennae […]

Life on Mars

Artist: Raymond Bayless

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

With space opera style, this oil on masonite panel painting is an otherworldly science fiction creation by the American artist, illustrator, and writer Raymond Bayless. Finely detailed with fantastical space exploration imagery, the painting shows a collection of space ships, varying in technical prowess, that are trapped within an asteroid belt. Spidery alien creatures menacingly […]

The Sea of Lost Ships

Artist: Raymond Bayless

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

Futuristic, detailed, and very precise, this science-fiction inspired imagination of cosmos exploration was created in 1963 as the cover of the British magazine Understanding Science #71, a Sampson Low Publication. Geared to the high school audience, and part of the ongoing space race effort to get youths interested in science during the Cold War, the image dramatizes astronomy by […]

The Milky Way

Artist: Unknown British Illustrator

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, British, original cover art, original illustration art, pulp, sci-fi, science fiction, space exploration, Understanding Science Magazine
Added to Gallery: November 1, 2016

This remarkable gouache pulp cover painting by Alex Schomburg appeared on the February, 1961 issue of the long running Ziff-Davis magazine Amazing Stories – Fact And Science Fiction. Though the work seems like pure fantasy at first glance, it is based on the real-life practice of both the American and Soviet space programs of sending mice, dogs, chimpanzees and animals into space to […]

Amazing Stories Cover

Artist: Alex Schomburg

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Alex Schomburg, magazine cover, Monkey, original cover art, pulp, sci-fi, science fiction, space exploration, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 16, 2016

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

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: John Berkey, paperback, pulp, sci-fi, space exploration
Added to Gallery: February 5, 2016

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