Kirk Wilson is a mystery man.  It is known that he was born in Indiana.  He graduated high school in 1930.  He never attended college and it appears that he may have been as self-taught artist.  He appears to have started his career as an illustrator in the late 1930s and he served in the U.S. Army during World War II.  Kirk Wilson died at the age of 59 in Manhattan.  He left behind a gallery of pulp greatness and is especially remembered for his western covers.

Here’s a sampling of the work of Kirk Wilson: