Category Archives: Art
Artwork of the Day: Great Gale at Yarmouth On Ash Wednesday
Artwork of the Day: Mardi Gras Mate Traders
Artist Profile: Arnold Kohn (1920 — 1984)
Hailing for Chicago, Arnold Kohn’s career as an illustrator spanned three decades, from 1944 to 1975. Check out a few of his fun and imaginative covers below.
Artwork of the Day: Judge Not My Sins
Art Profile: Film Fun
Film Fun was a pulp magazine that ran from 1915 to 1942. When the magazine started, the covers featured paintings of contemporary film stars. When that didn’t sell, the decision was made to start featuring pin-ups on every cover and by 1922, Enoch Bolles was painting Film Fun‘s covers. As you can tell by the covers below, Film Fun didn’t take itself too seriously. It ceased publication in 1942, after the U.S. Post Office cracked down on the mailing of “salacious” material.
The covers below are naughty and innocent at the same time. They’re also a lot of fun. All of them were painted by Enoch Bolles:































