randy_byers: (brundage)
Vanguard Productions has published an art book collecting the fabulous pulp covers of Margaret Brundage as well as a number of her other paintings. It also attempts to create an in-depth portrait of Brundage that connects her to the bohemian and Civil Rights movements in Chicago in the first half of the 20th Century. It's a fascinating book all around, and I highly recommend it. I've posted a review of The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage at Dreamland Cafe. (Some images probably NSFW.)

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Jun. 18th, 2013 06:58 am
randy_byers: (brundage)
'Except for contacts mentioned here including Weinberg, Everts, Kemp, Korshak, Ackerman, and letters from Weird Tales readers, Margaret [Brundage] had little interaction with fandom. Contrary to some reports, our research found no record of her ever attending any convention. She was a guest lecturer at multiple University of Chicago Science Fiction Club meetings including in Nov. of 1954. Margaret was the first professional to ever donate original art to benefit the World Science Fiction Convention (Seacon in Seattle WA., 1961), but she did not attend. The following year, she was advertised as tentative to judge the Masquerade Ball at the 1962 World Con in Chicago, aka Chicon, but did not attend. Noted author Leigh Brackett filled in for Margaret as judge.'

-- J. David Spurlock, "The Secret Life of Margaret Brundage" in The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage
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Okay, I assume you all knew, but just weren't telling me. Didn't want me to get over-excited, I'm sure. Well, it's too late for that now!

After a brief discussion about Burroughs artists with [livejournal.com profile] maryread yesterday, in which I described Frazetta's eroticism as thick and ham-handed, I went googling for examples of J. Allen St John artwork and thereby stumbled upon the covers that Margaret Brundage did for Weird Tales in the 1930s. (It was a Weird Tales kind of day, because I also started reading CL Moore's Northwest Smith story, "Black Thirst".) Holy cow! Now this (not safe for work) is my kind of eroticism. This (also NSFW) ain't half bad either.

Those are just two of the better scans I've been able find on the Web, but you can see all of her Weird Tales covers (and loads and loads of other pulp covers) starting with the September issue from this page of the 1932 Weird Tales covers at a wonderful French site.

Where have I been hiding all my life? )

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