{"id":5638,"date":"2020-03-05T12:18:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T17:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2020-12-31T14:51:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T19:51:33","slug":"robert-lesser-1924-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2020\/03\/05\/robert-lesser-1924-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Lesser: 1924-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was very sorry to see on Facebook just now of the passing of pulp art collector <strong>Robert Lesser<\/strong> on March 1, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>His collection of art filled <em>Pulp Art: Original Cover Paintings for the Great American Pulp Magazines<\/em> from 1997 and let us marvel over the quality of the artwork created for our beloved rough-paper magazines. He also displayed the paintings at various exhibits over the years for fans to appreciate in person.<\/p>\n<p>His obituary appears on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/nytimes\/obituary.aspx?n=robert-lesser&#038;pid=195598340\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Legacy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Below, Lesser talks about the pulps and his love of the artwork.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"540\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o9piFGBrssU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very sorry to see on Facebook just now of the passing of pulp art collector Robert Lesser on March 1, 2020. His collection of art filled Pulp Art: Original Cover Paintings for the Great American Pulp Magazines from 1997 and let us marvel over the quality of the artwork created for our beloved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","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":"New at Yellowed Perils: Robert Lesser: 1924-2020. #pulpmags","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":[7,18,9,29],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-obituaries","category-people","category-pulp-art"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2020\/03\/robert-lesser.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-1sW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5659,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions\/5659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}