Lee Brown Coye created more than 50 years worth of wildly imaginative and fantastic artwork for magazines like the original Weird Tales and prized books by Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, and many other classic fantasy and horror authors. Now readers can find out why modern day artists in film (Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth), horror (Stephen King, The Mist), and graphic-novels (Mike Mignola, Hellboy) are such big Coye fans.
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Lee Brown Coye (1907-1981) was best known as a highly idiosyncratic artist of the macabre, who most notably illustrated stories for Weird Tales magazine and book jackets for the publisher Arkham House, but as Ortiz shows in his well-researched biography, Coye's range was much wider than most fans realize. He was also a muralist in the tradition of such American regionalists as Thomas Hart Benton, as well as a capable anatomical artist. His paintings were exhibited at galleries and museums, including the Whitney, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased a watercolor of his for its permanent collection. Unfortunately, Coye was never a financial success, and he was plagued by self-doubt and ill health in later years. He did achieve one bit of indirect posthumous fame: a favorite motif, latticeworks of sticks, inspired Karl Edward Wagner's celebrated tale "Sticks," which in turn influenced the makers of the film The Blair Witch Project. With its more than 350 illustrations, many in color, this portrait of "a seminal pulp artist at the very least" is a must for lovers of the weird and fantastic. (Feb.)
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“A must for lovers of the weird and fantastic.” —Publishers Weekly
“A smashingly beautiful book . . . reading this fine biography is like riding a train through the history of three-quarters of the 20th century, and seeing Coye's monsters through every window.” —ASIMOV'S Science Fiction Magazine
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In later years, towards the end of his life, Lee Brown Coye liked to tell the story of his visit to Mann's Brook in the spring of 1938, apropos of his almost cabalistic use of rough sticks in his artwork. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
scratchboard illustration, scratchboard art, pulp artists, scratch board, clockwise top, page clockwise, spot art, ink illustration, pencil study Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Weird Tales, New York, Lee Brown Coye, Sleep No More, Tales of Horror, Anna Olmsted, Arkham House, Short Stories, North Pitcher, Syracuse Museum, Night Side, Mann's Brook, The Seventh Ogre, Erie Canal, Associated Artists, William Coye, Fantastic Stories of Imagination, The Art of Bundling, Scylla the Beautiful, World War, Ida May, Worse Things Waiting, Civil War, One of Lee, Anthony Adverse Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
In later years, towards the end of his life, Lee Brown Coye liked to tell the story of his visit to Mann's Brook in the spring of 1938, apropos of his almost cabalistic use of rough sticks in his artwork. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
scratchboard illustration, scratchboard art, pulp artists, scratch board, clockwise top, page clockwise, spot art, ink illustration, pencil study Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Weird Tales, New York, Lee Brown Coye, Sleep No More, Tales of Horror, Anna Olmsted, Arkham House, Short Stories, North Pitcher, Syracuse Museum, Night Side, Mann's Brook, The Seventh Ogre, Erie Canal, Associated Artists, William Coye, Fantastic Stories of Imagination, The Art of Bundling, Scylla the Beautiful, World War, Ida May, Worse Things Waiting, Civil War, One of Lee, Anthony Adverse Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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