Rafael DeSoto covers on my new illustrator spotlight blog

Started a new blog on illustrators sometime ago but haven't found time to do more posts :-). Hopefully this post makes up for the gap between posts.

https://illustratorspotlight.blogspot.com/2020/01/rafael-desoto-art-teacher-illustrator.html

M. Leone Bracker - illustrator,poster designer

M(ichael) Leone Bracker was the artist who painted the cover illustration for the first issue of Adventure magazine, for the serial novel “Yellow Men and Gold” by the author Gouverneur Morris. He was a prominent magazine and advertising illustrator who was well known for his war poster designs.

Ilustrator M. Leone Bracker c. 1912

Happy Fourth of July to you...



July 1923 cover for The Elks magazine by Angus MacDonall

July 1923 cover for The Elks magazine by Paul Stahr



July 1927 cover for The Elks magazine by Paul Stahr



July 1928 cover for The Elks magazine by Norman Rockwell



July 1931 cover for The Elks magazine by Walters Beach Humphrey



July 1933 cover for The Elks magazine by Colcord Heurlin



July 1934 cover for The Elks magazine by Ronald MacLeod



July 1935 cover for The Elks magazine by Ronald MacLeod

Some beautiful covers from the Elks magazine by Alex Raymond

A couple of covers for The Elks magazine by Alex Raymond.



Cover Illustration for The Elks magazine, November 1937, by Alex Raymond



Cover Illustration for The Elks magazine, December 1937, by Alex Raymond

Some beautiful covers from the Elks magazine by Edgar F. Wittmack

[Continuing the run of beautiful cover art from The Elks magazine. This time the artist is Edgar F. Wittmack]



Cover Illustration for The Elks magazine, April 1926, by Edgar F. Wittmack



Cover Illustration for The Elks magazine, September 1927, by Edgar F. Wittmack



Cover Illustration for The Elks magazine, December 1928, by Edgar F. Wittmack



Cover Illustration for The Elks magazine, June 1930, by Edgar F. Wittmack



Cover Illustration for The Elks magazine, February 1931, by Edgar F. Wittmack



Cover Illustration for The Elks magazine, September 1933, by Edgar F. Wittmack

Some beautiful covers for The Elks magazine by Paul Stahr

The prolific Paul Stahr, who had a monopoly on Argosy covers between 1924-1934, did these beautiful covers for The Elks magazine. Tell me your favorites with a comment.

My choices: January 1925 and September 1924.

Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1923 October

Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1924 July

Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1924 September

Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1924 November



Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1925 January

Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1925 March

Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1925 June

Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1925 October

Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1926 December

The original paintings for the next two covers have survived.

Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1927 July

Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1928 February

 

Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1928 October

Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1929 January

Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1932 May

Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1934 January

Cover by Paul Stahr for The Elks magazine 1934 May

Mystery artist revealed: Laurence Sterne Stevens

The illustration I posted last week was by Laurence Sterne Stevens. It was from Adventure magazine, January 1944 and was an illustration for the poem Vulture Blood by Helen von Kolnitz Hyer, who went on to become the poet-laureate for South Carolina. It's really a story in poem form. You can read it here.

 He was a professional illustrator who never became as famous as Virgil Finlay, but his style was quite similar, and his interior illustrations for Famous Fantastic Mysteries and Adventure magazine were among his best work.

 Some more illustrations from Stevens

http://beautiful-grotesque.blogspot.com/2012/03/art-of-lawrence-sterne-stevens.html

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2014/01/16/big-fish/

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2012/09/25/tentacles-1-the-boats-of-the-glen-carrig/

http://learning2share.blogspot.com/2007/11/happening-upon-few-pulp-sci-fi.html

Hope you enjoyed them.

Guess the artist: illustration for Adventure magazine

I know Blue Book magazine is the pulp that is supposed to have the best illustrations of all of the pulp magazines, and from the few 1940s issues I've read, I've no doubt that on average the illustration quality was much better than other pulps.

But I've also read Adventure in the 1940s and think that was an amazing decade as far as illustration quality. I know these weren't the peak days of the magazine, but the stories are still very readable, and most of the illustrations were quite good, and some are stunning.

I have here an illustration for a poem. Can you guess who the artist was for this amazing illustration? Leave your answers in the comments. I'll post the answer next week along with the poem itself.



Illustration of Mayan priest in Adventure magazine