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Art Deco Pulp cover or pin-up magazine cover
By Peter Driben
Located in Miami, FL
Pulp cover or pin-up magazine cover signed lower left some foxing throughout work is framed
Category

1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Amazing Stories, Book Cover
By Leo Morey
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Amazing Stories, Pulp Cover, August 1934 Exhibitions: Allentown Art Museum, At the Edge: Art of the
Category

1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Sexy Woman in a Swamp Storm - Pulp Magazine, Hispanic Artist, Mid Century
By Rafael DeSoto
Located in Miami, FL
Rafael DeSoto's full command of academic painting. DeSoto did pulp covers up until the industry's
Category

1950s Academic Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

The Complete Detective Cover, Pulp Magazine
By Harry Lemon Parkhurst
Located in Miami, FL
process of committing an art heist. The Complete Detective Cover, Pulp Magazine Illustration, February
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Return Of The Four, All Around Magazine Cover
By Newell Convers Wyeth
Located in Fort Washington, PA
(American, 1882-1945) The Return of the Four, All Around Magazine, pulp cover, December 1915 Oil on canvas
Category

1910s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Gods of Voodoo
By Harold McCauley
Located in Fort Washington, PA
pulp cover paintings by H.J. Ward, H.W. McCauley, Virgil Finlay, and other American illustrators
Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Sexy French Cabaret Dancers - Folies Bergere Pulp Paperback Book Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Campy and sexy illustration of two French chorus girls for the mid-century Avon paperback Les Girls. Story of the Folies Bergere Unsigned and unframed. George Ziel was a prolific il...
Category

1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Board

Pulp Magazine Marine Combat Scene Shoot Out in Blue Noir
Located in Miami, FL
,before establishing himself as a cover illustrator for 1950s paperbacks and pulp magazines such as Argosy
Category

1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Illustration Board, Gouache

Ann Chernow, Pulp...Fact or Fiction, 2019, silkscreen, oil, canvas, 50 x 40 in
By Ann Chernow
Located in Darien, CT
they want. These characters first came to the public by way of pulp fiction, both in literature and
Category

2010s Feminist Portrait Prints

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Pencil, Screen

Memories Of Cassanova, Paperback Cover
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover for The Memoirs of Casanova (Bantam books #FB-415, 1957): A New Edition of the French
Category

1950s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Untitled (Couple with Seascape)
By Peter Stevens
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
freelance pulp covers to Popular Publication's magazine Argosy. It is remarkable that at that same time, his
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board

Original 1913 Motor Age Magazine Cover Art Illustration
By Clinton Pettee
Located in Fort Washington, PA
pulp magazines and is best known for his illustration on the cover of the October 1912 issue of The All
Category

1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

A ray of light in the forest - Solitary Man Surreal Landscape
By Hector Garrido
Located in Miami, FL
, horror and adventure book covers, including all the covers for the Baroness series of pulp novels, and
Category

1970s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Keith Haring, Untitled, 1985 (abstract) (Framed)
By Keith Haring
Located in Manchester, GB
conservation digital paper made in Germany from acid and chlorine free wood pulp. Manufactured on a Fourdrinier
Category

1990s Contemporary Interior Prints

Materials

Lithograph

British Soldiers in Combat
By George Hand Wright
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Ink and Gouache Signature: Signed Lower Right Probably a magazine cover for a Munsey’s
Category

Early 1900s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Keith Haring, Party of Life Invitation, 1986 (Framed)
By Keith Haring
Located in Manchester, GB
conservation digital paper made in Germany from acid and chlorine free wood pulp. Manufactured on a Fourdrinier
Category

1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Keith Haring, Dog, 1985 (Framed)
By Keith Haring
Located in Manchester, GB
made in Germany from acid and chlorine free wood pulp. Manufactured on a Fourdrinier Machine first
Category

1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

1969 Monoprint by H. Lawrence Hoffman, Signed
Located in Larchmont, NY
and painter who worked in New York City. He illustrated book covers for over 25 publishing companies
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Monoprint

Street Violinist Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
illustrations for Street & Smith's western pulp magazines. In 1932 he began to sell freelance cover paintings to
Category

1970s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A ray of light in the forest - Surreal Man in Surreal Landscape
By Hector Garrido
Located in Miami, FL
, horror and adventure book covers, including all the covers for the Baroness series of pulp novels, and
Category

1970s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

R.B. Kitaj Orgasm: drawing of woman in ecstasy with pale pink and clay red
By Ronald Brooks Kitaj
Located in New York, NY
inspired by film stills and pulp novel covers. In this sensual print, Kitaj chose colors related to the
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"It's a Trap" Oil on canvas 30x24 Western cowboy POP art Southwest painting
Located in Southampton, NY
contemporary style. He references classic Hollywood Westerns, Pulp novel covers and Vintage Comics to convey
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Christmas Scene, Maxwell Coffee Advertisement
By Walter Martin Baumhofer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
, "Home for Christmas..." (1945) For years, Walter Martin Baumhofer painted cover designs for the Pulps
Category

1940s Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Drop Your Guns" oil on canvas Cowboy Western POP art
Located in Southampton, NY
contemporary style. He references classic Hollywood Westerns, Pulp novel covers and Vintage Comics to convey
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"End of The Trail" #17 Acrylic, Spray paint & Silkscreen Cowgirl western POP art
Located in Southampton, NY
Westerns, Pulp novel covers and Vintage Comics to convey the romance of the American West. His use of a POP
Category

2010s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic

"End of The Trail" #14 Acrylic, Spray paint & Silkscreen Cowgirl western POP art
Located in Southampton, NY
Westerns, Pulp novel covers and Vintage Comics to convey the romance of the American West. His use of a POP
Category

2010s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic

"Shut Up and Kiss Me" Cowboy Western Pop art Oil on Canvas
Located in Southampton, NY
unique contemporary style. He references classic Hollywood Westerns, Pulp novel covers and Vintage Comics
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Spray Paint

"The Past is Not The Past" #14 Mixed Media Acrylic & Spray paint with Silkscreen
Located in Southampton, NY
classic Hollywood Westerns, Pulp novel covers and Vintage Comics to convey the romance of the American
Category

2010s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic

"Unfinished Business on the Alkali Flat" 2013 Oil & Spray paint on canvas 42x32"
Located in Southampton, NY
contemporary style. He references classic Hollywood Westerns, Pulp novel covers and Vintage Comics to convey
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Enamel

"I Ain't Going Nowhere" Oil on Canvas Cowboy POP Art
Located in Southampton, NY
contemporary style. He references classic Hollywood Westerns, Pulp novel covers and Vintage Comics to convey
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"The Past is Not The Past" #4 Mixed Media Acrylic & Spray paint with Silkscreen
Located in Southampton, NY
classic Hollywood Westerns, Pulp novel covers and Vintage Comics to convey the romance of the American
Category

2010s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic

"He Shot His Way Into Trouble" original Pop art Oil on Canvas 30x24
Located in Southampton, NY
unique contemporary style. He references classic Hollywood Westerns, Pulp novel covers and Vintage Comics
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Marriage a Vacillating State of the Libido, Mixed Media
By Lisa Kokin
Located in Surfside, FL
and covers as her medium. She uses a blender that was handed down from her family to shred and pulp
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

The Grand Finale Lobby Card Limited Edition Cel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Disney and Warner Bros. for 25 years. He has penciled covers for DC Comics’ Looney Tunes and Tiny Toons
Category

1980s Pop Art More Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

"Black Sun at High Noon" oil on canvas 42x32 original Cowboy Pop art painting
Located in Southampton, NY
contemporary style. He references classic Hollywood Westerns, Pulp novel covers and Vintage Comics to convey
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Main Cluster #1 Archival Print Cotton Rag Paper Venezuelan Geometric Abstract
Located in Houston, TX
paper. Framed size is 23 x 28 x 1.5 which includes a covered linen mat . 100% cotton rag papers
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper

"Business for the Undertaker" OLD WEST Cowboy oil on canvas 42x32"
Located in Southampton, NY
contemporary style. He references classic Hollywood Westerns, Pulp novel covers and Vintage Comics to convey
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Midnight Showdown on the Hogbacks" oil, spray paint & enamel on canvas 46x38"
Located in Southampton, NY
contemporary Pop Art style. He references classic Hollywood Westerns, Pulp novel covers and Vintage Comics to
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Enamel

A Rash Act: erotic drawing of nude blonde, redhead, and man with art deco motifs
By Ronald Brooks Kitaj
Located in New York, NY
female form, often producing edgy and sensual work inspired by film stills and pulp novel covers. A
Category

1970s Realist Nude Prints

Materials

Lithograph

" PING " 32x62" large Pop Art Cowboy oil on canvas
Located in Southampton, NY
painted in his unique contemporary style. He references classic Hollywood Westerns, Pulp novel covers and
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Guns, God and Country" 2022 Cowboy Contemporary Pop Oil on canvas 60x48
Located in Southampton, NY
painted in his unique contemporary style. He references classic Hollywood Westerns, Pulp novel covers and
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"End of the Trail" Oil on canvas 46x38" Southwest Pop Street Art
Located in Southampton, NY
his unique contemporary style. He references classic Hollywood Westerns, Pulp novel covers and
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage SIGNED Kitaj Poster, La Fabbrica, Milan (A Life 1975) woman in red dress
By Ronald Brooks Kitaj
Located in New York, NY
on his pastel work Femme de Peuple II, and a pulp novel’s salacious cover. Known for his expressive
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

A Life (B) R.B. Kitaj Film noir night city scene of woman in red dress
By Ronald Brooks Kitaj
Located in New York, NY
Peuple II, and a pulp novel’s salacious cover. Known for his expressive style and charged imagery
Category

Late 20th Century Expressionist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

"Because The Past Is Not The Past" Oil on Canvas 62 x42 Pop ART
Located in Southampton, NY
West painted in his unique contemporary style. He references classic Hollywood Westerns, Pulp novel
Category

Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

7up
By Greg Miller
Located in Santa Monica, CA
text that shaped the flat delta landscapes and pulp fiction images of his youth. Layer upon layer of
Category

2010s Other Art Style Mixed Media

Materials

Resin, Acrylic, Panel

7up
7up
H 73.5 in W 73.5 in D 3 in
Jarvis Cocker Paris 1996 - Signed Limited Edition Print
By Kevin Westenberg
Located in London, GB
inkjet process. Here’s some of the backstory: I already had a history with Pulp, having shot the covers
Category

1990s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

"Flittering and Fluttering" Folk Art inspired linoleum print of birds, deep aqua
By Lisa Houck
Located in Wellesley, MA
Adult Education: Catalog Cover, Spring, 2000. Paper Art: “Working From Pulp,” by Michael G. LaFosse
Category

2010s Folk Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Linocut

"Reigning and Roosting" Folk Art inspired linoleum block bird print, deep blue
By Lisa Houck
Located in Wellesley, MA
Adult Education: Catalog Cover, Spring, 2000. Paper Art: “Working From Pulp,” by Michael G. LaFosse
Category

2010s Folk Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Linocut

"Humming and Harmonizing" Folk Art inspired hummingbird print, blue / off white
By Lisa Houck
Located in Wellesley, MA
Adult Education: Catalog Cover, Spring, 2000. Paper Art: “Working From Pulp,” by Michael G. LaFosse
Category

2010s Folk Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Linocut

'Soaring and Surfing' Folk inspired black/white woodcut print of bird in flight
By Lisa Houck
Located in Wellesley, MA
, Spring 2007 Boston Athenaeum, Annual Report, 2006 Making and Decorating Stylish Screens: Cover Art, by
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Jarvis Cocker In Paris 1996 - signed Limited Edition print
By Kevin Westenberg
Located in London, GB
. Here’s some of the backstory: I already had a history with Pulp, having shot the covers for ‘INTRO
Category

1990s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Untitled (Couple)
By Richard Prince
Located in Toronto, Ontario
media. Whether it's nurses from the covers of pulp fiction novels, macho Cowboys in Marlboro ads, or
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

C Print

Secret Project
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
illustrations for the Pulp magazines. He illustrated his first major manuscript for The Country Gentleman in
Category

1940s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Work and Play
By Gordon Grant
Located in Missouri, MO
, beaches and marines, and was an illustrator, whose work included pulp fiction* for Popular Detective
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Work and Play
Work and Play
H 18 in W 20.5 in D 1 in
Secret Pattern I
By Ken Polinskie
Located in Surfside, FL
Gallery Hand Papermaking Magazine “Art of Pulp Painting” edition portfolio, 1 of 17
Category

20th Century Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Secret Pattern I
Secret Pattern I
H 27 in W 21 in D 1.5 in
"November Morning, " Original Etching signed by Churchill Ettinger
By Churchill Ettinger
Located in Milwaukee, WI
of pulp magazines. An avid outdoorsman, Ettinger was commissioned by top sporting magazines to
Category

1940s Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

'A Visit to the Lake House' Graphic, Colorful Landscape, Patterned and Playful
By Lisa Houck
Located in Wellesley, MA
Education: Catalog Cover, Spring, 2000. Paper Art: “Working From Pulp,” by Michael G. LaFosse, Quarry Books
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

The Treasury Edition: Spidey Spectacular #7
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
in these objects was far from my kid mind. I'd crease the pages, handle the covers with Hawkins
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Archival Paper

The Treasury Edition: Spidey Spectacular #2
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
in these objects was far from my kid mind. I'd crease the pages, handle the covers with Hawkins
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Archival Paper

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Pulp Covers For Sale on 1stDibs

Find a variety of pulp covers available on 1stDibs. Finding the perfect Pop Art or Art Deco examples of these works for your space is difficult — today, we have a vast range of variations and more on offer. If you’re looking to add a pulp covers that pops against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of black, brown, beige, orange and more. There have been many well-done artworks of this subject over the years, but those made by Harold McCauley, Norman Saunders, Paul C. Stahr, Sam Cherry and Peter Driben are often thought to be among the most beautiful. Frequently made by artists working in paint, oil paint and canvas, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Large pulp covers can be an attractive addition to some spaces, while the smaller iterations available — each spanning 1 inches in width — may make for a better choice for a more modest living area.

How Much are Pulp Covers?

Pulp covers can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $10,890, while the lowest priced sells for $3,500 and the highest can go for as much as $33,000.