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Jon Arfstrom (November 11, 1928 – December 2, 2015) was an American artist of imaginative realism known for his fantastical works in the fantasy and horror genres, active both in the late pulp fiction era of the 1950s, with his Weird Tales cover art and interior illustration work, and then again in science fiction publishing in the 1980s, for his mature cover work, for which he received a Bram Stoker Award in 1994. An accomplished watercolorist, Arfstrom combined his public life as a commercial artist, with its focus on Americana, with a private, surreal, imaginative world, expressed in his many notebooks and journals. (en) |
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Jon Arfstrom (November 11, 1928 – December 2, 2015) was an American artist of imaginative realism known for his fantastical works in the fantasy and horror genres, active both in the late pulp fiction era of the 1950s, with his Weird Tales cover art and interior illustration work, and then again in science fiction publishing in the 1980s, for his mature cover work, for which he received a Bram Stoker Award in 1994. (en) |
