Howard Purcell

Wild Body

1953

Date: 1940s Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 34.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Ruckus, Story Illustration

Paperback cover for Surrender to Love by Charles Boswell and Lewis Thompson. Published by Popular Library (#688) in 1955. Caption: “The True Account of a Crime of Passion” Raymond S. Pease was a painter and illustration artist, especially of outdoor sports, including polo, and of Western subjects. Born in Vermont, he grew up with horses, and remained interested in them the rest of his life. Pease attended Grand Central Art School and the National Academy of Design in New York City, and received a B.F.A. degree from the Yale University School of Art. He also studied art in Paris at the Ecoles des Beaux-Arts and Academie Julian. Pease painted portraits, still lifes, wildlife, polo scenes, a series of paintings of wild horses...

An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...

An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...

Original book cover illustration for "The Wench is Dead," published by Centipede Press.

Film noir crime drama painted in a single frame. In narrative art, telling a story in a single image is harder than doing it in episodes. "'That police officer...

Dimensions: 21.00" x 26.00" Medium: Mixed Media on paper Signature : Signed Lower Left

This illustration was published twice as a paperback cover, first as Motel Mistress by Norman Bligh, Original Books, 1952, and also - under the same title - as Star Novels #763, circa 1955. Raymond S. Pease was a painter and illustration artist, especially of outdoor sports, including polo, and of Western subjects. Born in Vermont, he grew up with horses, and remained interested in them the rest of his life. Pease attended Grand Central Art School and the National Academy of Design in New York City, and received a B.F.A. degree from the Yale University School of Art. He also studied art in Paris at the Ecoles des Beaux-Arts and Academie Julian. Pease painted portraits, still lifes, wildlife, polo scenes, a series of paintings of wild horses...

Artist: Robert G. Harris, American (1911 - 2007) Title: Louisa, Please Come Home (Grace Kelly) Year: 1960 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 20 x 28 in. (50.8 x 71.12 cm) F...

Medium: Oil on Masonite