painting by Gil Elvgren (1953)
30 April 2018
Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 18
This week's calendar painting from Gil Elvgren is Stepping Out from 1953 -
29 April 2018
Pulp Paintings
As promised earlier, we've got a small collection of Margaret Brundage's cover paintings for Weird Tales, sans the cover text.
This painting was for the cover of Golden Fleece magazine -
For your reference, here's the magazine cover version -
The most frustrating part about encountering artists whose careers were crushed like this is the thought that most artists get better over time, creating their greatest works later in life. Those works were essentially stolen from us. Margaret deserved better, and the world did, too.
Bonus Brundage: There's a small collection of non-cover paintings posted in our adult content back room, The Other Voice Of ODD!
Follow this link to see the four paintings, including two 'brighter' paintings from later in her life.
I wonder how many paintings are out there from Margaret Brundage?
This gets complicated by the possibility that she was also selling her work under aliases after the scandal troubles when the public realized Brundage was a woman. Note this painting from 'Marni Bron'(dage?) -
Compare the M and the rs and ns in Marni's signature to that of Margaret Brundage:
They certainly seem to be the same to my aging eyes.
Perhaps someday a comprehensive collection of her lost artwork will be assembled. Until then, i'll keep hunting for those lost treasures...
This painting was for the cover of Golden Fleece magazine -
For your reference, here's the magazine cover version -
The most frustrating part about encountering artists whose careers were crushed like this is the thought that most artists get better over time, creating their greatest works later in life. Those works were essentially stolen from us. Margaret deserved better, and the world did, too.
Bonus Brundage: There's a small collection of non-cover paintings posted in our adult content back room, The Other Voice Of ODD!
Follow this link to see the four paintings, including two 'brighter' paintings from later in her life.
I wonder how many paintings are out there from Margaret Brundage?
This gets complicated by the possibility that she was also selling her work under aliases after the scandal troubles when the public realized Brundage was a woman. Note this painting from 'Marni Bron'(dage?) -
Compare the M and the rs and ns in Marni's signature to that of Margaret Brundage:
They certainly seem to be the same to my aging eyes.
Perhaps someday a comprehensive collection of her lost artwork will be assembled. Until then, i'll keep hunting for those lost treasures...
all art by Margaret Brundage
Covering Brundage
Continuing from last night's post, the complete Weird Tales covers of Margaret Brundage in chronological order -
We've got a bonus post following this evening featuring some of the paintings from these covers without all the wordage for better enjoyment of Margaret's fine artwork.
Stop on by if you're interested.
1936
1937
1938
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
We've got a bonus post following this evening featuring some of the paintings from these covers without all the wordage for better enjoyment of Margaret's fine artwork.
Stop on by if you're interested.
covers by Margaret Brundage for the indicated issues of Weird Tales (1936-1945)
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