Illustrationintheworld

  Howard V. Brown (1878-1945) is a US illustrator who, even though his sf Illustration represented only a small proportion of his prodigious output, became one of the Big Four sf illustrators of the 1930s (with Leo Morey, Frank R Paul and H W Wesso). He received his formal art education at Chicago's Art Institute and became based in New York. Among the books that he illustrated during his early career were all six volumes of Katharine Elizabeth Dopp's educational Industrial and Social History series about our prehistoric ancestors, beginning with The Tree Dwellers (1904). He was cover artist for Scientific American circa 1913-1931, typically showing human figures dwarfed by gigantic technological projects. Starting with a simple, almost primitive style, Brown rapidly developed into one of the most dramatic cover illustrators of that era. His first cover for an SF Magazine proper was for the October 1933 issue of Astounding, the magazine having just been bought by Street ...

  Gino Boccasile, born Luigi Boccasile (Bari, 14 July 1901 - Milan, 10 May 1952), was an Italian illustrator, advertiser and painter. He graduated from the Bari School of Arts and Crafts. In 1932 he moved to Milan where he collaborated with the advertising studio of Achille Mauzan. A successful illustrator, he proposes an image of a sensual and busty woman, a symbol of female beauty, widely exploited later in the advertising field. During the war he created numerous billboards for fascist propaganda, for the Italian Social Republic and for the Anti-tubercular Campaign. In 1934 he exhibited in Paris at the Salone degli Indipendenti and in 1936 he took part in the I Mostra del Cartellone in Rome. Gino Boccasile, who passed away at the age of only 51, was one of the most popular and highly regarded Italian poster designers. He achieved notoriety by drawing provocative women for the covers of the magazine «Le grandi firme» published in the 1930s by Pitigrilli. He began designing pos...