🎤 Virgil Finlay – Artist Profile

🎤 Artist Virgil Finlay 🌎 Country

(US) • Born Thu 23 Jul 1914 ♌ (56 years, 5 months, 26 days, 20633 total living days) • R.I.P. Mon 18 Jan 1971 (111 years, 5 months, 20 days, 40715 total living and posthuman days)

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Falcon

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Falcon (Mon 24 May 2004)
Die Wontcha (Sat 26 Apr 2008)

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Virgil Finlay was an US pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. He has been called “part of the pulp magazine history … one of the foremost contributors of original and imaginative art work for the most memorable science fiction and fantasy publications of our time.” While he worked in a range of media, from gouache to oils, Finlay specialized in, and became famous for, detailed pen-and-ink drawings accomplished with abundant stippling, cross-hatching, and scratchboard techniques. Despite the very labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of his specialty, Finlay created more than 2600 works of graphic art in his 35-year career.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Finlay in 2012. Belated Virgil Finlay has many posters of their gigs with H. P. Lovecraft, Elric, Weird Tales, back cover “Black Butterflies” from Spirits 2 (snake/caterpillar with wings) and other publication from 1949, etc, and derived to Uriah Heep‘s first cover and Falcon.

: Illustration of Elric by Virgil Finlay for Master Of Chaos, 1964

: Virgil Finlay – The Skeleton in Armor

Speak, speak, thou fearful guest,
Who, with thy hollow chest,
All in rude armor dressed,
Comest to daunt me!
– Longfellow: The Skeleton in Armor