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Post by severance on Feb 20, 2012 18:29:35 GMT
I can't see a specific thread anywhere for the artwork of Richard Powers - there's a large amount of his work on the Ballantine Horror Series thread, but he did other work besides those. This is one of my favourites of the crime pieces he did: Jackson & Offord - The Girl in the Belfry - published by Gold Medal in July 1957.
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Post by killercrab on Feb 20, 2012 19:15:25 GMT
That's excellent.
KC
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Post by doug on Feb 21, 2012 16:40:31 GMT
Hi! Richard Powers is such a unique cover artist that you could recognize a SF or horror paperback from a mile away. Powers and Paul Lehr are my 2 all time favorite cover illustrators/artists. These 2 guy dominated U.S. paperbacks back then. It's all a matter of taste, but I've always found Mr. Power's covers be unsettling, arresting and unforgettable and Mr. Lehr's covers to be beautiful, arresting and unforgettable. Seriously, you can recognize a Richard Power's cover from a mile away.
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Post by royk on Feb 2, 2014 19:13:45 GMT
Yes, Powers was a real original in cover design. I used to buy a lot of American genre paperbacks and his art stood out as you say. There's a good selection here, but quite a few people have put covers up on Flickr and so on which reflects how much his art was enjoyed I think he might have been influenced by Yves Tanguy goo.gl/pKA6ZWBritish artist Brian Lewis who'll be familiar here for House of Hammer and so on, did a some covers in a broadly similar style for New Worlds and Science Fantasy www.sfcovers.net/Magazines/NW/NW_0075.jpg
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Post by severance on Apr 17, 2019 13:17:05 GMT
A lot of Richard Powers' work being showcased on the 'Artists Assemble!' thread at the moment and I knew I'd created a specific thread for his art somewhere here - didn't realize it was seven years ago, though. Anyway, though he's predominantly known for his SF covers, he's also done the odd cover for the crime and espionage genres. Here's a couple from Gold Medal:
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Post by dem bones on Apr 17, 2019 14:15:13 GMT
Nine Ballantines and a Pyramid.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 17, 2019 15:13:52 GMT
I was going to say I prefer those works of his that do not have human figures in them, but then I realized most of them do, just often highly stylized.
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