Pulp Illustration
Pulp Magazine Marine Combat Scene Shoot Out in Blue Noir
Located in Miami, FL
What makes this work important?
It's not that it's a commissioned artwork for a men's 60s pulp
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
$12,000
H 18.6 in W 20.2 in D 1 in
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
Pulp Fiction Art "Before the Races" by Victor Olson
Located in Redding, CT
known pulp fiction illustration artist.
Victor Olson (1925-2007) Redding CT.
Mr. Olson was born in
Category
Vintage 1950s North American Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
'Pulp Fiction' Original Vintage French Movie Poster by Bernard Bittler, 1994
Located in Devon, GB
Stark graphic impact of Bernard Bittler's retro pulp-magazine style illustration against the blood red
Category
1990s French Post-Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
$2,057
H 62 in W 46.13 in D 0.1 in
IIIII Will Always Love You By The Connor Brother
By The Connor Brothers
Located in London, GB
culture, psychology, and human behavior, making use of old pulp fiction-style illustrations paired with
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Pigment
$5,416
H 29.53 in W 19.69 in
Fruit Still Life on Board attributed to William Federick Timmons
Located in Redding, CT
-2007).
During the 1940s his cover illustrations appeared on pulp magazines, such as The Shadow, Clues
Category
Early 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Paint
$1,800 Sale Price
28% Off
H 24.5 in W 29 in D 0.75 in
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
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Lorence Bjorklund "Trail Bros", ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
was best known for his western pulp illustrations. After finishing high school in 1931 he moved to
Category
1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
H 15 in W 10 in D 0.2 in
Lorence Bjorklund "Fight Back or Die", original ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
pulp magazine industry by drawing pen and ink interior story illustrations. During a long and
Category
1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
H 10 in W 10 in D 0.2 in
Pulp Fiction Paperback Cover Illustration of Alfred Hitchcock
Located in Treasure Island, CA
Unsigned
Alfred Hitchcock's Murder on the Half Skull
1970
Oil, tempera on board
16 x 10 inches (Frame: 25 x 18 inches)
excellent condition
archivally framed
Illustrated: Cover...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Paintings
Skating
By John Drew
Located in Minneapolis, MN
the Golden Age of Illustration, and a prominent pulp cover illustrator. This is a very art deco take
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude Contemplation
By Harry T. Fisk
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Illustration pulp artist Harry Fisk. Artwork bears the original Salmagundi Club Curator's Exhibit label which
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil
Pulp Illustration
By H.W. Kiemle
Located in Fort Washington, PA
covers and interior story illustrations regularly appeared in such pulp magazines as Ace-High Magazine
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pulp Illustration
By Howard Hastings
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 32.25" x 24.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Traffic Jam Saturday Evening Post cover, April 28, 1956
By Earl Mayan
Located in New Orleans, LA
at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, joining the field of pulp illustration after his graduation in
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cardwell Higgins 1930's Pastel Illustration/ "Spicy Girls"
By Cardwell Higgins
Located in Philadelphia, PA
greats, Rockwell Kent, Vargas and many more! Best known for his "Spicy Girl" Portraits and pulp covers
Category
Vintage 1930s American Mid-Century Modern Drawings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper
The Watchers, Dakota Indians
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
compositions required of pulp magazine illustrations. His paintings often have more stable (even static
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Amos Sewell "Prairie Schooner" Original Saturday Evening Post Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
A fine Cowboy Pulp illustration for Saturday Evening Post in the 1950s.
Original oil board
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Other
'Pulp Fiction' Original Vintage French Movie Poster by Bernard Bittler, 1994
Located in Devon, GB
Stark graphic impact of Bernard Bittler's retro pulp-magazine style illustration against the blood red
Category
1990s French Post-Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
H 62 in W 46.25 in D 0.1 in
The Tracker
By Remington Schuyler
Located in Soquel, CA
Students League in New York and with Howard Pyle. Known for his "pulp illustrations," Remington Schuyler
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ASHCAN School Antique Impressionist NYC Orchestra SYMPHONY Violin Painting
By John Howitt
Located in New York, NY
major magazine illustration, he was forced by the Depression to paint for the pulp magazines, which
Category
1920s Ashcan School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Oil Painting "A Day At the Museum" by Bertram Glover
Located in Buffalo, NY
School. During the 1920s he created illustrations for pulp novelettes and later painted portraits of
Category
1960s Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Board
H 27 in W 31 in D 1 in
Oil Painting "Railroad Man's Daughter" Dated 1941 by Bertram Glover
Located in Buffalo, NY
School. During the 1920s he created illustrations for pulp novelettes and later painted portraits of
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 39 in W 33 in D 2 in
"Men of the Golden West" by John Wade Hampton, (Portfolio) 4 Lithographs
Located in Phoenix, AZ
cowboy, he used pretended he was roping cows by using his mother's clothesline. He began illustration
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lorence Bjorklund "Firebrand's Brothill Bounty", ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
Minnesota, Bjorklund was best known for his western pulp illustrations. After finishing high school in 1931
Category
1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Lorence Bjorklund "Don Hurricane", original ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
Minnesota, Bjorklund was best known for his western pulp illustrations. After finishing high school in 1931
Category
1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
H 15 in W 10 in D 0.2 in
Death Makes A Mistake
By Harold McCauley
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Death Makes a Mistake is an eerie, dark, and foreboding interior pulp illustration by Harold
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Illustration Board
Lorence Bjorklund "Smokey Serenade", ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
western pulp illustrations. After finishing high school in 1931 he moved to Brooklyn to study commercial
Category
1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
H 15 in W 10 in D 0.2 in
Lorence Bjorklund "The Sheriff of Powder Rock", ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
the "Wild West".
Born in Minnesota, Bjorklund was best known for his western pulp illustrations
Category
1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
H 13.25 in W 10 in D 0.2 in
Lorence Bjorklund "Shawn of the Gun Pack", ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
, Bjorklund was best known for his western pulp illustrations. After finishing high school in 1931 he moved
Category
1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Lorence Bjorklund "Gun Shots of Skeleton Canyon", ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
"Wild West".
Born in Minnesota, Bjorklund was best known for his western pulp illustrations. After
Category
1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
H 14.25 in W 10 in D 0.2 in
Lorence Bjorklund "Sonny Tabor's Silver Handcuffs", ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
West".
Born in Minnesota, Bjorklund was best known for his western pulp illustrations. After
Category
1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Lorence Bjorklund "The Whistlin' Kids ... Trail", ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
pulp illustrations. After finishing high school in 1931 he moved to Brooklyn to study commercial art
Category
1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Lorence Bjorklund "A Gun Lawyer for CJ", ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
the "Wild West".
Born in Minnesota, Bjorklund was best known for his western pulp illustrations
Category
1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
H 15 in W 10 in D 0.2 in
Lorence Bjorklund "Gold Robbers of Cutthroat Gulch", ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
pulp illustrations. After finishing high school in 1931 he moved to Brooklyn to study commercial art
Category
1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The Baby Factory
By Harold McCauley
Located in Minneapolis, MN
This dramatic, futuristic sci-fi interior pulp illustration was created by Harold McCauley for an
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Illustration Board
21st Century Girl Walking Pet
By Harold McCauley
Located in Minneapolis, MN
This spectacular otherworldly sci-fi pulp illustration painting by Harold McCauley was used as the
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Great Pulp Art Western Illustration by Pete Kuhlhoft
Located in New York, NY
This is a great Illustration by Pete Kuhlhoft ( 1903- 1972). The website Pulpartists.com has his
Category
Vintage 1940s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Pulp Fiction Cover Illustration for Italian Social Realist Novel
Located in Treasure Island, CA
John E. Johnson
Cover Illustration for Mastro Don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga
published by UC
Category
Vintage 1970s American Paintings
Materials
Board
Fantastic Adventures Pulp Cover
By Harold McCauley
Located in Minneapolis, MN
A pulp cover painting by Harold W. McCauley for the Ziff-Davis science fiction pulp title Fantastic
Category
1940s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil
15 Story Detective Pulp Cover
By Norman Saunders
Located in Minneapolis, MN
October, 1950 issue of the pulp magazine 15 Story Detective; a Popular Publications title. The scene is a
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Modern Girl Spicy Pulp Magazine Cover
By Cardwell Higgins
Located in Minneapolis, MN
A signed original pastel on illustration board from the late 1930's by the prolific cover artist
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Pastel
Encounter In A Sinister Place
By Harold McCauley
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Harold McCauley created this tense, action-packed, gritty, and dramatic illustration for an-as-of
Category
1940s Gothic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Illustration Board
How to Hypnotize
By Virgil Finlay
Located in Minneapolis, MN
pulp cover illustration from this long running title, this was for many years part of the storied
Category
1950s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Marmora
By C.C. Beck
Located in Minneapolis, MN
This science fiction pulp gouache painting on illustration board by noted comic artist Charles
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
The Rider From Rio
By John Coughlin
Located in Minneapolis, MN
surviving Golden Age of Illustration pulp cover painting.
Sight Size 25" x 30" Framed 29" x 34"
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Devil's Punchbowl
By H.J. Ward
Located in Minneapolis, MN
segment discussed the artist, the culture of spicy pulps, and the "red hot" illustration market as a whole
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marihuana
By Bill Fleming
Located in Minneapolis, MN
name of William Irish. An early and iconic pulp paperback cover.
This original illustration is a
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Lorence Bjorklund "Trail of the horse", original ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
pulp magazine industry by drawing pen and ink interior story illustrations. During a long and
Category
1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Lorence Bjorklund "Death Throws a Wide Loop", ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
West".
Born in Minnesota, Bjorklund was best known for his western pulp illustrations. After
Category
1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Lorence Bjorklund "Secret of Cedar Brook", original ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
the "Wild West".
Born in Minnesota, Bjorklund was best known for his western pulp illustrations
Category
1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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