Category Archives: Art

Artist Profile: Peter Stevens (1920–2001)

Posted on by Dazzling Erin

Born in Cardiff, Peter Stevens was the son of two artists.  (His father, Lawrence Sterne Stevens, was a prominent pulp artist at the same time as his son.)  Peter Stevens studied at London’s Royal Academy of Art and, with his wife, moved to New York in 1940.  It was while serving in the Army during World War II that Peter sold his first pulp illustrations to Argosy.  From 1943 to 1963 (when his shifted his focus to doing commissioned portraits), Stevens did covers for almost every prominent pulp magazine.

A few of those covers can be found below:

Artist Profile: Mel Crair (1923–2007)

Posted on by Dazzling Erin

Mel Crair was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended the LaGuardia High School of music and art, where one of his classmates was future artist Stanley Borack.  After serving in the Army during World War II, Crair attended the Art Students League of New York on the G.I. Bill.  Starting in the 1950s, he became one of the most prolific artists working in the pulp magazine and paperback business.  Especially remembered for both his western piantings and the military-themed covers that he painted for several men’s magazines, Crair never retired, working until his dying day.

Below is a small sampling of his work: