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- Artists
- Saunders, Norman (Norm)
 - Edition Details
| Year: | 1952 | | Class: | Original Art | | Status: | Official | | Run: | 1 | | Technique: | Original Mixed Media | | Size: | 15.5 X 22.25 | | Markings: | Signed |
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A well rendered and rare surviving cover artwork for the August 1952 Dime Detective Magazine by Norman Saunders. Work is estate stamped on verso and published cover has been archived on the artist's son David Saunders website. This oil on board deftly illustrates the interior story "Trap for a Tigress" in the noir, tense and sensationalist style that made Saunders the preeminent American pulp illustrator. Work is nicely framed in a gold gallery frame and in a fine state of preservation.
A pulp illustration artist, Saunders became known for his fast-action scenes, his beautiful women, and ability to meet a deadline. In the hey-day of pulp paperbacks, 1935 to 1953, he often produced 100 paintings a year, and much of his good work was for science fiction.
He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and first studied art by a mail-order course. Fawcett Publications hired him from 1928 to 1934, and then he moved to New York and became a free-lance pulp artist and studied with Harvey Dunn at the Grand Central School of Art. He served in World War II and then returned to pulp illustration.
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