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| In His Sights |
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| Artist: | Harry Fisk |
| Date: | 1929 |
| Medium: | Oil On Stretched Canvas |
| Dimensions: | Sight size 21" by 30 1/2" Framed 23" by 32 1/2" |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Original Use: | Cover art for an unidentified Pulp Aviation Title |
| Price: | $6500.00
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| Above: Full view of oil painting |
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| Above: The artist's signature and date of 1929 lower right |
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| Above: Detail |
A dramatic and tense original pulp magazine cover painting by Harry Fisk for an as of yet undetermined aviation themed pulp title of 1929. The perspective in this painting is fascinating and adds drama and peril to this WWI air force engagement where the American gunner pilot with the black cat insignia has the German aircraft in his sights. This was likely a cover for "Battle Stories" an aviation themed title that Harry Fisk, Stockton Mulford and George Rozen all contributed covers for in 1929.
Aviation pulps appeared on news-stands in the 1920s as the horror of World War I began to fade from public memory leaving room for the development of heroic and mythic tales of soldiers and aviators. Until the start of the Second World War, the aviation pulps focused on these Great War-themed stories, but after 1941, their content switched to tales of glory from the front lines of WWII. Painting is signed and dated lower right and framed in a simple wood frame with original wood stretchers and unrelined old canvas.
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| Above: Detail |
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| Above: Verso view with old invisible from front repairs |
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| Above: Framed view in simple wood frame |
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