10 January 2012

Paperback Art of Richard Powers

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Richard M. Powers (February 24, 1921 – March 9, 1996) 
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Power's mostly abstract work has always fascinated me.  I've featured it here and here.
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Powers was born in Chicago and discovered drawing at age 11 when an uncle gave him a sketch pad.

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1958, a non-SF cover

From the 1940s through the 1960s, he did many of covers for Doubleday. During the 1950s and 1960s, he served as an unofficial art director for Ballantine Books. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2008.

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1958, another non SF genre cover

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2001 coffee table book 

1 comment:

  1. I own the original cover art for THE PEOPLE MAKER, and owned the art for THE STAR OF LIFE, but stupidly sold it.

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