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May 21, 2018 · Proximity to New York City helped him win assignments to paint covers for Permabooks, Ballantine, Pyramid, and other publishing houses. His efforts graced works by crime novelists ranging from Robert Kyle and Richard Deming to A.A. Fair (aka Erle Stanley Gardner), John Creasey, and William Campbell Gault.
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Barbara Remington (23 June 1929 – 23 January 2020) [1] was an American artist and illustrator. Born in Minnesota, she was probably best known for her cover-art for Ballantine Books ' first paperback editions of J. R. R. Tolkien 's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and for her Tolkien-related poster A Map of Middle-earth. [2]
This more simple, uncluttered design opened the door for photo-art covers, for crime paperbacks particularly – you had, for example, McGinnis dolls on Perry Mason covers being replaced by photos of beautiful women.
- Robert Mcginnis
- Robert K. Abbett
- Rudolph Belarski
- Norman Mingo
- James Avati
- Paul Bacon
- Robert Maguire
- 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...
Jun 17, 2023 · Barbara Remington ( 23 June 1929 - 23 January 2020) was an American artist. She painted the cover art for Ballantine Books ' first paperback editions of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, for which J.R.R. Tolkien expressed dislike.
Barbara Remington, who designed the hallucinogenic cover for the Ballantine edition of The Lord of the Rings, says she hadn’t even read the book when she painted the commissioned cover. And that’s just fine.
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