Monday, February 3, 2020

Blow Out Your Candles, Mr. McGinnis

As The Stiletto Gumshoe notes, today is the birthday of renowned American painter-illustrator Robert McGinnis, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1926. I’ve written several times about McGinnis and his amazing paperback cover art, including this piece for CrimeReads and this other one for The Rap Sheet, in which I interviewed Art Scott, co-author of the beautiful 2014 book, The Art of Robert McGinnis.

It’s always a pleasure to study McGinnis’ breadth of work. May he be with us—still painting—for many more years to come.

4 comments:

John said...

Although I didn't know it was him at the time, I was always captured by his provocative covers for the Carter Brown books in the 1960's. His women are always very seductive.

Drake Maynard said...

Happy birthday indeed! Mr. McGinnis' work is a lately discovered pleasure, but one that I increasingly enjoy.

Wish you had included some McGinnis work along with your post.

J. Kingston Pierce said...

Hey, Drake:

To enjoy the NUMEROUS examples of McGinnis' artistry I have presented in Killer Covers over the years, you need only click on the "Robert McGinnis" label at the bottom of this post. It will lead you to:

http://killercoversoftheweek.blogspot.com/search/label/Robert%20McGinnis

Cheers,
Jeff

Anonymous said...

A fine body of work that is a joy to keep dipping into. Happy birthday Mr. McGinnis!

Ken.