Frank Kelly Freas Ice Cave Inkwash Painting Original Comic Art Matted Mix Media

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Frank Kelly Freas Ice Cave Inkwash Painting Original Comic Art Matted Mix Media:
$75.00

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So, check here when you wake up every morning and check out my other sales as well. I work odd hours so to make up for it, I like to post stuff with a nice buy-now to encourage you to take the time and look.Frank Kelly Freas Ice Cave Inkwash Ink-wash Ink Wash Painting Original Comic Art Matted Mix Media!7 & 7/16 inches by 10 1/2 inches matted size. Mixed Media Ink Wash. Additional notes on back with original purchase price.Kelly noted on the back \" Very Important Drawing \"
I don\'t know what that is in reference to.Thank you Wikipedia for providing the below information:Frank Kelly Freas (27 August 1922 – 2 January 2005) was an American science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years. He was known as the \"Dean of Science Fiction Artists\" and he was the second artist inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

Born in Hornell, New York, Freas (pronounced like \"freeze\") was the son of two photographers, and was raised in Canada.[4] He was educated at Lafayette High School in Buffalo, where he received training from long-time art teacher Elizabeth Weiffenbach. He entered the United States Army Air Forces right out of high school (Crystal Beach, Ontario, Canada). He flew as camera man for reconnaissance in the South Pacific and painted bomber noses during World War II. He then worked for Curtis-Wright for a brief period, then went to study at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh and began to work in advertising. He married Pauline (Polly) Bussard in 1952; they had two children, Jacqui and Jerry. Polly died of cancer in January 1987. In 1988 he married (and is survived by) Dr. Laura Brodian.

Career

The fantasy magazine Weird Tales published the first cover art by Freas on its November 1950 issue: \"The Piper\" illustrating \"The Third Shadow\" by H. Russell Wakefield. His second was a year later in the same magazine, followed by several Planet Stories or Weird Tales covers and interior illustrations for three Gnome Press books in 1952.[2] With his illustrating career underway, he continued to devise unique and imaginative concepts for other fantasy and science fiction magazines of that period. In a field where airbrushing is common practice, paintings by Freas are notable for his use of bold brush strokes, and a study of his work reveals his experimentation with a wide variety of tools and techniques.

Over the next five decades, he created covers for hundreds of books and magazines (and much more interior artwork), notably Astounding Science Fiction both before and after its title change to Analog—indeed, from 1953 to 2003.[2] He started at Mad magazine in February 1957 and by July 1958 was the magazine\'s new cover artist; he painted most of its covers until October 1962 (featuring the iconic character, Alfred E. Neuman).[4][5] He also created cover illustrations for DAW, Signet, Ballantine Books, Avon, all 58 Laser Books (which are now collectors\' items), and over 90 covers for Ace books alone. He was editor and artist for the first ten Starblaze books. He illustrated the cover of Jean Shepherd, Ian Ballantine, and Theodore Sturgeon\'s literary hoax, I, Libertine (Ballantine Books, 1956). That same year he drew cartoon illustrations for Bernard Shir-Cliff\'s The Wild Reader.

Freas also painted insignia and posters for Skylab I;[4] pinup girls on bombers while in the United States Army Air Forces; comic book covers; the covers of the GURPS worldbooks Lensman and Planet Krishna; and more than 500 saints\' portraits for the Franciscans executed simultaneously with his portraits of Alfred E. Neuman for Mad.[citation needed] He was very active in gaming and medical illustration. His cover of Queen\'s album News of the World (1977) was a pastiche of his October 1953 cover illustration for Tom Godwin\'s \"The Gulf Between\" for Astounding Science Fiction.[5][6]

Freas published several collections of his art, frequently gave presentations, and his work appeared in numerous exhibitions. He was among several of the inaugural recipients of the Hugo Award for Best Artist in 1955 and was recipient under different names of the next three conferred in 1956, 1958, and 1959.[7][b] With six more Hugo awards to his name (1970 and 1972–76), he became the first person to receive ten Hugo awards (he was nominated 20 times). No other artist in science fiction has consistently matched his record.

Freas was twice a Guest of Honor at Worldcon, at Chicon IV in 1982 and at Torcon 3 in 2003, although a fall suffered shortly before the latter convention precluded him from attending.[citation needed]

He died in West Hills, California and is buried in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth.