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May 21, 2018 · But the dozen artists cited below were responsible for some of the most captivating and memorable examples of the breed. Robert K. Abbett (1926–2015) Born in Hammond, Indiana, the son of a paint salesman, Abbett early on imagined spending his professional life behind a camera.
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- Jack Davis
- Stanley M. Zuckerberg
- Harry Bennett
Robert Edward McGinnis (born February 3, 1926) is known for his illustrations of more than 1,200 paperback book covers, and over 40 movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s (his first film poster assignment), Barbarella, and several James Bond and Matt Helmfilms. McGinnis’s attention to detail was such that when he was assigned to do the art...
Robert Kennedy Abbett (1926 – 2015) born in Hammond, Indiana. During the late-1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Robert Abbett, also credited as Bob Abbett, illustrated book covers for war novels, detective novels, thrillers, historical fiction and science fiction. Today, Abbett is best known for his paintings of wildlife (in particular, dogs), wilderness, sp...
Rudolph Belarski (1900-1983) was born in Dupont, Pennsylvania, a mining town. His parents were unskilled immigrants from Galicia, an Austrian Polish nation. Young Belarski attended school until he was twelve, when he was legally entitled to quit school and work in the coal mines, which he did for ten years. He studied mail-order art courses at nigh...
Norman Theodore Mingo (25 January 1896 – 8 May 1980) is most famous for being commissioned to formalize the image of Alfred E. Neuman for Mad. A prolific magazine illustrator in the Norman Rockwell vein, Mingo resided in the Chicago area for decades before retiring to Tarrytown, New York. As a child, he won an art contest, receiving art materials a...
James Sante Avati (December 14, 1912 in Bloomfield, New Jersey – February 27, 2005 in Petaluma, California) grew up almost like an orphan. His father was a professional photographer in New York City. His mother died shortly after his birth. He was raised by his maternal aunt and eventually his father married her. While Jim was still young, his fath...
Paul Bacon (December 25, 1923 – June 8, 2015) is known for introducing the “Big Book Look” in book jacket design, and designed about 6,500 jackets and more than 200 jazz record covers. In 1950, Bacon was asked by Bill Westley, a friend’s father, to provide illustrations for his book, Chimp on My Shoulder. The art director for E. P. Dutton, the book...
Robert A. Maguire (August 3, 1921 – February 26, 2005), or R. A. Maguire, was known primarily for his crime noir paperback cover art, he has produced artwork for over 600 covers since 1950. Maguire is a Member Emeritus of The Society of Illustrators. Maguire’s over 600 covers for such publishers as Pocket, Dell, Ace, Harper, Avon, Silhouette, Balla...
John Burton “Jack” Davis, Jr. (December 2, 1924 – July 27, 2016) is known for his advertising art, magazine covers, film posters, record album art and numerous comic book stories. He was one of the founding cartoonists for Mad in 1952. His cartoon characters are characterized by extremely distorted anatomy, including big heads, skinny legs and larg...
Stanley M. Zuckerberg (1919 – 1995) was raised on the waterfront at Long Beach, Long Island, New York, He is known for his black and white drawings and color illustrations for the military, magazines, and text books. Some of the authors whose books he illustrated were John Dos Passos, Somerset Maugham, Sinclair Lewis, James Michener, Vladimir Nabok...
Harry Bennett was born May 15, 1919 in South Salem, NY. His father was a native Ridgefielder whose roots in Ridgefield went back to the 18th Century. Bennett was born months after his own father, Harry Bennett, died of the 1918 flu epidemic. His mother Anna Karlson raised the family earning income by operating a laundry business. . The family moved...
Abbett started his art career in the 1950s as an illustrator for book covers, magazine covers, and motion picture studios. He is most well-known for illustrating the covers of the John Carter of Mars series written by Edgar Rice Burroughs in the 1960s.
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Kill Now, Pay Later by Robert Kyle (Dell, 1960) Artist: Robert McGinnis. Now in his early 80s, McGinnis began painting paperback covers half a century ago, and established a style familiar for its impossibly deep-cleavaged and long-legged lovelies.
During the late-1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Abbett illustrated book covers for war novels, detective novels, thrillers, historical fiction and science fiction. Today, Abbett is best known for his paintings of wildlife (in particular, dogs ), wilderness , sporting , and fishing .
Robert Kennedy Abbett (b. 1926, Hammond, Indiana) is an American artist and illustrator. During the late-1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Robert Abbett, also credited as Bob Abbett, illustrated book covers for war novels, detective novels, thrillers, historical fiction and science fiction.
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During the late-1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Abbett illustrated book covers for war novels, detective novels, thrillers, historical fiction and science fiction. Today, Abbett is best known for his paintings of wildlife (in particular, dogs), wilderness, sporting, and fishing.
