tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post1226473263574943484..comments2024-03-29T09:49:41.273-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Saturday Morning Western Pulp: All Western Magazine, December 1936James Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-344285668331152022021-11-14T19:03:25.651-06:002021-11-14T19:03:25.651-06:00It's remarkable and sad so little made it. Giv...It's remarkable and sad so little made it. Given the line art inside and the cover illustrations there had to be many thousands of images. I've been searching for originals from Al Martin Napolitano, an illustrator of "true western" magazines for decades, and have found precisely one for sale (which I don't like!) in the years I've been looking. He likely contributed 500+ images to Frontier Times and True West magazines alone. <br /><br />There's probably numerous examples of original commercial art like this that goes by on Ebay, but I find it very difficult to search for effectively. <br /><br />I guess it isn't called "ephemera" for nothing!<br /><br />I'll keep looking<br /><br />John<br /><br />John Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-55446417408678573622021-11-14T07:10:05.234-06:002021-11-14T07:10:05.234-06:00Some pulp cover paintings survived, but by this po...Some pulp cover paintings survived, but by this point, they're probably all in the hands of collectors. A few are usually available at the pulp conventions, and one shows up on Heritage Auctions every now and then, but yeah, they're pretty hard to find.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-10542490339856273142021-11-14T06:44:26.121-06:002021-11-14T06:44:26.121-06:00That's a great cover!
I keep looking for orig...That's a great cover!<br /><br />I keep looking for original art of this type on Ebay and have yet to see any. It's a shame none appears to have survived. That's a very well composed painting.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16230164328257405925noreply@blogger.com