yesterday at Society of Illustrators we worked on hanging Pulp Art: The Robert Lesser Collection, to go on display later this week.
Let me tell you, it is quite a show.
It has cowboys, aliens, hardboiled detectives, and a lot of dishy 1940's babes about to meet horrible fates. A perfect snapshot of who we were in America in the 30s and 40s.
Here's a couple quick pics for you, obviously they do it no justice so you will have to go see it for yourself.
some pieces awaiting installation
cover illo from a pulp called The Pirate of Wall Street
some of the hardboiled stuff
this piece was one of my favorites. very unusual for a pulp cover. in spite of the dangling corpse it has a Van Gogh/Ukiyo-E flavor to it
I loved this one. Great paint quality, and observe, there is a tiny man being dissected.
poor lass. there is no telling what that nasty cowboy might do to her.
this piece was the cover for a 1941 pulp entitled (I shit you not) JAPS INVADE AMERICA!
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With the cowboy damsel pic, I love how the thing keeping the tied up hero from speaking freely is his MASSIVE heroic jaw. If he hadn't done so many chin push-ups, maybe he wouldn't be in the situation he's in.
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