The Paintings of J. Allen St. John: Grand Master of Fantasy

by Stephen Korshak, J. David Spurlock, Frank Frazetta
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Editorial Reviews

• More than 170 paintings of Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, more—many shot from original paintings
• Essays by top science fiction authors

The Paintings of J. Allen St. John presents the artist’s full-color fantasy and science-fiction paintings for novels and pulp magazine stories by famous authors such as Edgar Rice Burroughs. Essays by today’s top science-fiction writers, including Jack Williamson, illustrator Vincent Di Fate, and historian Robert R. Barrett, make this book—Vanguard’s second devoted to the art of St. John—essential for any fantasy collection.

Customer Reviews

St. John's Legacy, 2008-11-24
by 8166 (USA)
I was extremely pleased when I received this book. To be able to see where so many great modern fantasy artists took their cues and inspirations from is amazing! His grasp of the anatomy is fantastic and real at the same time.
I really liked the articles within as well. It's good to glimpse something of an artist's life via these excerpt style prose bits. Overall I would highly recommend this book to any artist that struggles with illustration vs. fine art in their own mind. It helps to resolve issues like this by examining how the pros did it.

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