Artist Profile: Darrel Greene (1917 — 2014)


Doing It by Darrel Greene

All of the paperback covers below were done by the prolific Canadian-American artist, Darrel Greene.  Greene, who was born in Canada and grew up in Utah, served as a flight instructor in the U.S. Navy but, instead of becoming a commercial pilot, he instead became a commercial artist and ended up doing the covers for a countless number of paperbacks.  For several decades, Greene’s illustrations enticed paperback readers the world over.

Here’s a small sampling of his work:

High School Pusher