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Virgil Finlay (1914-1971)
Illustration for “L’Etreinte des Ailes” (The Shadow of Wings) by Robert Silverberg
In Galaxie #48 Apr. 1968 - French edition of Galaxy Science Fiction, New York - Editions Opta, Paris. Original U.S. publication: IF, Jul. 1963

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Virgil Finlay (1914-1971)

Illustration for “L’Etreinte des Ailes (The Shadow of Wings) by Robert Silverberg

In Galaxie #48 Apr. 1968 - French edition of Galaxy Science Fiction, New York - Editions Opta, Paris. Original U.S. publication: IF, Jul. 1963

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Virgil Finlay - The Magic Mirror (1938)

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Virgil Finlay - The Magic Mirror (1938)

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Illustration #1 by Virgil Finlay for “La Voix Venue du Ciel” (What the Dead Men Say) by Philip K. Dick
In Galaxie #6 Oct. 1964 - Editions Opta, Paris - French Edition of Galaxy - New York (USA)

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Illustration #1 by Virgil Finlay for “La Voix Venue du Ciel” (What the Dead Men Say) by Philip K. Dick

In Galaxie #6 Oct. 1964 - Editions Opta, Paris - French Edition of Galaxy - New York (USA)

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Cover painting for Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June 1942
Via Golden Age Comic Book Stories

Cover painting for Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June 1942

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Virgil Finlay - Satyr
via Golden Age Comic Book Stories

Virgil Finlay - Satyr

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Virgil Finlay - H.P. Lovecraft Speaks
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Virgil Finlay - H.P. Lovecraft Speaks

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Virgil Finlay - The Timeless Man

Virgil Finlay - The Timeless Man

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Virgil Finlay is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest illustrators of science fiction and fantasy. Born on July 23, 1914 in Rochester, New York, Finlay took to art early in life, selling his first illustration at the age of 21 to Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright for the magazine’s December 1935 issue. Over the next 35 years he completed more than 2,500 drawings and paintings, an achievement made even more impressive by the time required to execute his painstaking and labor-intensive pieces. To give his black and white drawings a photorealistic look, Finlay developed a unique style that combined stippling with scratchboard techniques (scratchboard being a type of art board manufactured with a white clay coating that accepts ink and can be cut away, allowing artists to “scratch” white lines into black areas). Source: Red Jacket

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