FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION: COVER ART (by date) |
No. |
Issue Date |
Cover Artist |
Comments |
1 |
1949 FLL |
Salter, George & Bill Stone |
cover illustrates "A Bride for the Devil" by Stuart Palmer; photograph & artwork combination, 1 of only 2 for F&SF; see Ferman's intro to his anth. The Magazine of F&SF: A 30 Year Retrospective, for cover info; Salter did 12 F&SF covers; Stone's only cover for F&SF |
2 |
1950 WIN/SPR |
Salter, George |
(1897-1967) art director for Mercury Publications since 1938, & for F&SF in particular until 1958, & for VSF's 1st run 1957 JAN-1958 JUL |
3 |
1950 SUM |
Salter, George |
Salter was born in Bremen, W. Germany, & went to art school, worked in stage and costume design, & in commercial art; he did his 1st book jacket in Berlin in 1927; he moved to the U.S. in 1934 |
4 |
1950 FLL |
Salter, George |
Salter's work for Mercury Publications incl. designing the covers, lettering, logos & typography for all the magazines they published, which incl. F&SF; Salter was a highly regarded book designer |
5 |
1950 DEC |
Bonestell, Chesley |
(1888-1986) depicts rocket taking off from one of Saturn's moons; Bonestell's space paintings were used for 39 F&SF covers(& did the '2nd cover' for the 20th Anniversary 1969 OCT issue) |
6 |
1951 FEB |
Salter, George |
Salter was known primarily in the art field as a great calligrapher; he taught classes in calligraphy, book design & illustration at Cooper Union in N.Y. from 1937 through 1967 |
7 |
1951 APR |
Salter, George |
see biography of Salter in Robert Weinberg: A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists(1988), from which much info in the comments section of this table is taken from |
8 |
1951 JUN |
Salter, George |
see information on Salter at www.drleslie.com/Contributors/salter.shtml |
9 |
1951 AUG |
Bonestell, Chesley |
depicts space ship in trouble with meteor swarm; Bonestell, born in San Francisco, was a survivor of the 1906 earthquake; attended St. Ignatius College & George Bates Univ.(both in San Francisco), & Hopkins Art Institute |
10 |
1951 OCT |
Salter, George |
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11 |
1951 DEC |
Salter, George & Dirone Photography |
2nd of 2 covers for F&SF that are a combination of photography & artwork |
12 |
1952 FEB |
Bonestell, Chesley |
depicts exploring the moon; Bonestell studied architecture at Columbia Univ.(N.Y.), was among those who helped design the Golden Gate Bridge, & the Chrysler Building; worked for the Illustrated London News in the 1920s, for the film industry after 1938 |
13 |
1952 APR |
Salter, George |
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14 |
1952 JUN |
Emsh |
(1925-1990) cover illustrates "Love" by Richard Wilson; working name for Ed(mund) Emshwiller, & also did covers in F&SF as such, & as Ed Emsh; Emsh did 71 F&SF covers, & 1954 & 1957 interior illus.; born in Lansing, MI; 1949 degree in Design from Univ. of Michigan |
15 |
1952 AUG |
Gibbons, George |
depicts a lunar landscape; George A. Gibbons, did 3 covers for F&SF |
16 |
1952 SEP |
Emsh |
cover illustrates "Mother" by Alfred Coppel; Emsh was born in Lansing, MI; served in the army 1943-46; earned bachelor of design degree from the Univ. of Michigan in 1949; studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts(with his wife, Carol), & Art Students League |
17 |
1952 OCT |
Bonestell, Chesley |
depicts Saturn as seen from Dione; Bonestell painted a series of space illustrations that were published in Life in the early 1940s; he illus. a very popular series of articles for Collier's beginning in 1952, starting popular support for space travel |
18 |
1952 NOV |
Emsh |
cover illustrates "Bring the Jubilee" by Ward Moore; Emsh sold his 1st sf illustration to GAL, in 1951, & did more than 400 sf covers over the next 13 years(incl. mags., paperbacks & hardcovers) |
19 |
1952 DEC |
Bonestell, Chesley |
depicts Little America being established on one of Jupiter's largest satellites; Bonestell illustrated 10 books on space science betw. 1949 & 1972, incl. The Conquest of Space(1949), Across the Space Frontier(1952) |
20 |
1953 JAN |
Schomburg, Alex |
(1905-1998) depicts Earth's artificial satellite (space station); Schomburg did 7 F&SF covers; born in Puerto Rico into a European merchant family; opened an art agency with his brothers in NYC in 1923 |
21 |
1953 FEB |
Gibbons, George |
depicts looking down at a rocket base on a moon |
22 |
1953 MAR |
Bonestell, Chesley |
depicts the fleet leaves Mars' inner satellite to land on the planet; Bonestell also illus. the space science books The Complete Book of Outer Space(1953), Conquest of the Moon(1953), The Solar System & Rocket to the Moon(1955) |
23 |
1953 APR |
Emsh |
cover illustrates "Beggars All" by J.T. M'Intosh; Emsh married fellow artist Carol Fries in 1949, who stopped painting & started writing sf in 1955(as Carol Emshwiller); their son, Peter, is also a genre writer, & was a managing editor at TWZ |
24 |
1953 MAY |
Coggins, Jack |
(1911- ) depicts rocket launching station on the moon; Coggins did 4 F&SF covers; born in London, Coggins moved to the U.S. while still a child; studied at the Grand Central School of Art, & the Art Students League |
25 |
1953 JUN |
Gibbons, George |
depicts the view through a spacecraft's window |
26 |
1953 JUL |
Emsh |
cover illustrates "Hypnoglyph" by John Anthony; Emshwiller did so much work in so many styles he used many ps., incl. Emsh, Ed Emsler, Ed Alexander, Ed Emsch, EAE, Ensh, Harry Gars, & Willer |
27 |
1953 AUG |
Coggins, Jack |
depicts erecting a communication tower on Triton, Neptune in background; during WWII, Coggins served as a U.S. Army correspondent in Europe, & did many war illustrations for Life; Coggins W-1995 Pagoda Award, from Berks County, PA, where he lives |
28 |
1953 SEP |
Coggins, Jack |
depicts spaceship over base on Ariel, Uranus in background; he first specialized in marine painting; 1950s Coggins began painting sf covers; illus. books by Fletcher Pratt, Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles and Space Ships('51), By Spaceship to the Moon('52) |
29 |
1953 OCT |
Emsh |
cover illustrates "Letter to a Tiger" by Kay Rogers; Emsh W-1960-1962, & 1964 HUG, & N-1959 & 1965, for Best Professional Artist; N-1973 LOC, for Best Magazine Artist; Emsh painted quickly, often finishing a painting in a day or two |
30 |
1953 NOV |
Hunter, Mel |
(1929- ) depicts an eclipse of the sun by the earth, as seen from the moon; Hunter did 31 F&SF covers; Hunter had no formal art training, but had a background in advertising copy writing & production engineering |
31 |
1953 DEC |
Emsh |
depicts marooned on an asteroid; Emsh would sometimes make a cover paintingwhich editors would assign an author to write a story about; for some mags., esp. GAL, his covers had no yie-ins to stories in the issue, the painting telling a story themselves |
32 |
1954 JAN |
Kirberger, Fred |
cover illustrates "One in a Thousand" by J.T. McIntosh; Kirberger did 4 F&SF covers, & did interior illustrations for F&SF in 1954; a wildlife artist, see an example of his work at www.decoyswildlife.com/ |
33 |
1954 FEB |
Bonestell, Chesley |
depicts spaceship leaving the moon for Earth's artificial satellite; Bonestell also illus. the space science books The Exploration of Mars(1956), Beyond the Solar System(1964); Man and the Moon(1961), & Mars(1964), last two with Robert S. Richardson |
34 |
1954 MAR |
Kirberger, Fred |
cover illustrates "5,271,009" by Alfred Bester |
35 |
1954 APR |
Emsh |
depicts rocket launch pad explosion; Emsh did his color work in Gouache, , casine, or designer colors, occasionally using dyes, colored inks, pastels, photographs, or air brush |
36 |
1954 MAY |
Coggins, Jack |
cover illustrates "Star Lummox" by Robert A. Heinlein; after his sf career, Coggins wrote & illustrated books on military & naval history, incl. Arms and Equipment of the Civil War(1962), Ships and Seamen of the American Revolution(1969) |
37 |
1954 JUN |
Kirberger, Fred |
cover illustrates "Star Lummox" by Robert A. Heinlein |
38 |
1954 JUL |
Kirberger, Fred |
cover illustrates "Star Lummox" by Robert A. Heinlein |
39 |
1954 AUG |
Hunter, Mel |
depicts exploring a green star system; Hunter's 1st commission was for the cover of GAL 1953 FEB, & then painted many mag. covers in the 1950s & exclusively for F&SF after 1961 JUN; was art director for IFS 1955 DEC-1957 DEC |
40 |
1954 SEP |
Solovioff, Nick |
cover illustrates "One Too Many" by J.T.McIntosh; Solovioff did 6 F&SF covers, and did interior illustrations for F&SF in 1954 |
41 |
1954 OCT |
Bonestell, Chesley |
depicts rocket-testing base on the moon; Bonestell also illus. the science books Beyond Jupiter(1972, with Arthur C. Clarke), & The World We Live In(1955); many of his paintings from these books also were printed as sf mag. covers |
42 |
1954 NOV |
Bonestell, Chesley |
depicts planet lit by Antares and companion star; Bonestell was a matte artist for movies The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1939), Only Angels Have Wings(1939), Citizen Kane(1941), The Magnificent Ambersons(1942), & The Fountainhead(1949) |
43 |
1954 DEC |
Bonestell, Chesley |
depicts exploring Mars; Bonestell worked on the background for the sf movies Destination Moon(1950), When Worlds Collide(1951), War of the Worlds(1953), & The Conquest of Space(1953) |
44 |
1955 JAN |
Solovioff, Nick |
cover illustrates "The Tournament" by William Sansom |
45 |
1955 FEB |
Freas, Kelly |
(1922- ) cover illustrates "The Climbing Wave" by Marion Zimmer Bradley; has done 12 F&SF covers; also goes by his full name, Frank Kelly Freas; one of the most prolific artists to work in the sf field; born in N.Y., but brought up in Canada |
46 |
1955 MAR |
Solovioff, Nick |
depicts a hostile planet |
47 |
1955 APR |
Bonestell, Chesley |
depicts surveying Mars; Bonestell painted a number of huge murals for major institutions(incl. the Smithsonian), depicting outer space scenes; was N-1968 HUG, for Best Professional Artist; N-1972 LOC, for Best Magazine Artist |
48 |
1955 MAY |
Meltzoff, Stanley |
(1917- ) depicts flight from the prison planet; his only cover for F&SF; born in NYC; grad. City College of N.Y.; served in WWII working for Stars and Stripes; see entries in Weinberg(1988) & Di Fate(1998); his article in Illustration Mag. #4 2002 AUG |
49 |
1955 JUN |
Salter, George |
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50 |
1955 JUL |
Solovioff, Nick |
cover illustrates "Father" by Philip Jose Farmer |
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