Tag Archives: Richard Powers

weill done: a weill deal

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: one thing i’ve taught myself to do while thrifting is to always ALWAYS dig through old stashes of classical records. i used to skip over classical records when i found them at yard sales and thrift store … Continue reading →

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joys of movement

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: 1962 World’s Fair “Century 21 Exposition” United States Commemorative Medal Sculptor: George Tsutakawa (1910-1997) Fifty years ago today, the 1962 World’s Fair opened in Seattle. This little item is probably my favorite that I’ve collected over … Continue reading →

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bachelor cartoonist: surreal sleaze

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) one of things i really enjoy about sifting through old magazines – particularly trashy second and third string specialty magazines – is finding hidden treasure. among the many amazing things you suddenly trip across in … Continue reading →

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dillons

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany 1812-1885 Doubleday & Co., 1971 (trade softcover) Illustration: Leo & Diane Dillon (each b. 1933) The Dillons are a nigh-legendary illustration tandem, and it’s almost impossible at this point … Continue reading →

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space plagues

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Space Plague Ace, 1957 Illustration: Richard Powers (1921-1996) George Oliver Smith (1911-1981), also known by the pseudonym Wesley Long, was a regular contributor to Astounding Science Fiction magazine and … Continue reading →

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out of the precious ghetto

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design , Maplewood, N.J.) Shellbreak Paperback Library, 1970 Illustration: Jack Gaughan (1930-1985) Gaughan was a remarkable stylist, whose work could have the simplicity and dynamism of a painted comic book cover (lacking … Continue reading →

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SPIRIT WORLD: Talking With a Famished Lion About Poetry

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Dave

The French painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) pursued an ideal in his quest to capture a spirit of innocence. While still very much rooted in French city life, and for many-years a conventional man, he nevertheless projected images of an exotic … Continue reading →

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TROPICS OF THE MIND: Forgotten Memories of an Ancestral Darkness

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dave

His is the simple and yet incredible story of an unworldly petit bourgeois who painted in an introverted, almost autistic manner. He himself cannot have been fully aware of what he was doing; he did not distinguish between his pictures … Continue reading →

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