James Avati

Tragic Ground, Paperback Cover, 1958

1958

Date: 1952 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 22.25" x 16.25" Signature: Signed Lower Left This classic Nappi painting was first published as the cover for Backwoods Hussy by Hallam Whitney (PBO, Original books...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Unsigned "The ragged edges of Manhattan. . . the rowdy brothels, the dirty hallways, the seething streets of Yorkville -- this was where Mattie Dolan...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Unsigned Dimensions: Sight Size 35.5" x 25.5;" Framed 39.50" x 28.75" This illustration was published as the paperback cover of Burro Alley by Edwin...

Approximate Date: 1961 Medium: Acrylic on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Size: 19" x 13" Paperback Four Year Hitch, paperback cover, c 1961

Joseph Lorusso was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1966, and received his formal training at the American Academy of Art. He went on to receive his B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Art Institute. While in school, Lorusso majored in watercolor and considers himself self-taught as an oil painter. He learned to paint by studying the works of master painters, often losing himself in the halls of the Chicago Art Institute during lunch hours...

Fact: There is no one alive today who can paint and draw as good as Dean Cornwell. Why? It takes a lifetime of training, work and commitment to be a great academic artist. Unfortunat...

Saturday Evening Post Illustrator Thornton Utz captures the peak moment of action in this Noir Crime Drama, Shooting illustration on an interior page in the famed magazine in 1958 —...

An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...