{"id":14135,"date":"2022-07-05T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=14135"},"modified":"2022-05-30T22:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T02:00:07","slug":"pulp-artist-margaret-brundage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2022\/07\/05\/pulp-artist-margaret-brundage\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulp artist Margaret Brundage"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to pulp artists, while there are several female artists, I think most can only name one: Margaret Brundage<\/strong> (1900-76). Famous, or infamous, for her many Weird Tales<\/em> covers, her work is well-remembered today.<\/p>\n

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Margaret Brundage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Living and working in Chicago, both helped and hurt her career.<\/p>\n

Her pulp-cover career lasted from 1932 to 1938 for a total of 66 covers. She first started off doing covers for Oriental Stories<\/em>, the spin-off title from Weird Tales<\/em>. But soon graduated to doing Weird Tales<\/em> starting with the September 1932 issue. In fact, she did all the covers from June 1933 to August 1936, 39 in total. She continued to work for WT<\/em> until it moved to New York in 1938, though there was a final original cover in January 1945.<\/p>\n

The problem was that she worked in pastels, which couldn’t be shipped to New York, where most pulp publishers where. When she began, Weird Tales<\/em> publisher Popular Fiction Publishers were in Chicago, as where a few others. This was how she was also able to do two covers for Golden Fleece<\/em>. It’s noted that a new “decency standard” was imposed in New York, but I am sure she could have continued to do covers. But that sadly ended her commercial career.<\/p>\n

\""Weird<\/a>I find it interesting that the cover artwork she created would be based on a scene from a story in that particular issue. Seabury Quinn<\/strong>, then writing the Jules de Grandin<\/strong> series, picked up on that and specifically included scenes in his stories to take advantage of that. More so because being the cover-featured story also brought in a little more money. Compare this to some of the other WT<\/em> authors who turned up their noses at the artwork.<\/p>\n

If you want to learn more about her, and see all<\/em> of her cover artwork and more, get a copy of The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage: Queen of Pulp Pin-Up Art<\/a><\/em> by Stephen D. Korshak<\/strong> and J. David Spurlock<\/strong> from Vanguard Productions<\/a> in 2013. It is available in a few editions. The hardcover and softcover editions are 184 pages, while the deluxe slipcase edition is 200 pages. I’m not sure what the extra pages are in that one.<\/p>\n

In this volume are some bios of Brundage looking at her life and career. Probably the highlight is getting all her covers in chronological order. It’s a great work if only for that artwork. It’s interesting to learn some items, such as her main rival as cover artist on WT<\/em> was Virgil Finley<\/strong>. I think one question some had was whether she use models for her artwork. And we learn that she did not<\/em> use live models; she used photo references from various sources.<\/p>\n

This book is on my shelf, along with several other pulp artist references. I recommend you check out Vanguard Productions, as they have other works of interest, including books on J. Allen St. John<\/strong>, Frank Frazetta<\/strong>, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to pulp artists, while there are several female artists, I think most can only name one: Margaret Brundage (1900-76). Famous, or infamous, for her many Weird Tales covers, her work is well-remembered today. Living and working in Chicago, both helped and hurt her career. Her pulp-cover career lasted from 1932 to 1938 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Pulp Super-Fan looks at pulp artist Margaret Brundage. #pulpmags #pulpart #weirdtales","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[857,1],"tags":[871,608,355,869,376,868,304],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-14135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artwork","category-pulps","tag-artist","tag-jules-de-grandin","tag-margaret-brundage","tag-oriental-stories","tag-seabury-quinn","tag-vanguard-productions","tag-weird-tales"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2022\/07\/weird-tales-1932-10-featured.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-3FZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14135"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14316,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135\/revisions\/14316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14135"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=14135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}