Murray Tinkelman, 82, in January (sci-fi/fantasy artist)

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He illustrated nature and science books as well. His works include books by H.P. Lovecraft, Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg and Zane Grey. Plus Aesop and "The Shrinking Man" by Richard Matheson.

http://murraytinkelman.blogspot.com/
(lots of artwork)

http://file770.com/?p=27393
(this includes a photo of the two and a tribute to his wife from the Norman Rockwell Museum)

Excerpts:

Acclaimed artist Murray Tinkelman (1933-2016) died January 30. He was 82. He was preceded in death by his wife Carol, who died January 16.

Arnie Fenner notes, “Fans might remember him best for his covers for Ballantine’s Lovecraft paperbacks in the late 1970s. Murray also did the covers for the hardcover and paperback Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up, Haldeman’s The Forever War, and others.”...

...Murray Tinkelman’s illustrations appeared in Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. The National Park Service commissioned him to do drawings and paintings of National Parks and Monuments. He was an artist-reporter on several U.S. Air Force missions.

He had a one-man exhibit of his baseball art at The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown in 1994. He also exhibited at The United States Sports Academy in Alabama, which named him the 1995 Sports Artist of the Year.

His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Delaware Art Museum, the International Photography Hall of Fame & Museum, and the New Britain Museum of American Art...

http://www.nrm.org/2016/02/norman-rockwell-museum-mourns-the-passing-of-artisteducatormuseum-trustee-murray-tinkelman/
(another tribute)

http://unotes.hartford.edu/announcements/2016/02/2016-02-03-in-memoriam-murray-and-carol-tinkelman.aspx
(from the University of Hartford)

http://muddycolors.blogspot.com/2016/02/murray-tinkelman-1933-2016.html
(some artwork)

https://www.google.com/search?q=murray+tinkelman+books&biw=1280&bih=869&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5usfp1JTPAhWK6yYKHTZgAaMQ_AUIBygC
(general artwork)

http://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/murray-tinkelman
(LONG biography)

https://molliebozarth.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/murray-tinkelman/
(remembrance)

http://wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2016/02/rip-murray-tinkelman-1933-2016.html
(book covers for E.R. Eddison)


http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2013/02/murray-tinkelman-on-new-reality-of-1970s.html
(interview from 2013, with three B&W drawings of Tinkelman's - the other artwork is by other people)

http://amazingstoriesmag.com/2013/08/a-conversation-with-the-hall-of-fame-illustrator-murray-tinkelman/
(article from 2013 - includes covers for Kurt Vonnegut and Zane Grey)

https://www.google.com/#q=murray+tinkelman&tbm=vid
(videos)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/80th$20tinkelman/rec.arts.books.childrens/VLSpXqWbq4k/5XIWuBbP-uwJ
(birthday post from 2013, with long blog)


Excerpts:


http://murraytinkelman.blogspot.com/
(LONG blog, with many images of his work - some are funny, some lovely - includes the cover of "The Cinderella Cookbook: 125 magic recipes for budget meals and leftovers" - that one's near the top)

Excerpts:

"I lived in a huge apartment house in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. There were a hundred and eleven families on six floors. During World War Two there were these paper drives and people would deposit their newspapers and magazines in the incinerator rooms. A maintenance man would come around and collect them for the war effort. My father was a radical progressive, so we were never allowed to see the Journal American in our home - but they had all the great comics - so I used to guiltily take out Prince Valiant and Flash Gordon from the papers left in the incinerator room and take them into my room and hide them.

"The same thing with the Saturday Evening Post, which my father thought was antisemitic. But I loved the Post, so I'd tear off the covers and some of the interiors and hide those, too."

Murray would study the drawings of Alex Raymond and Hal Foster and try to copy them in his own drawings. "Even the way Prince Valiant was lettered," he adds.

He knew about Superman and Batman, but "comic books were a dime and there was no money in my family (or very little) so comic books were a real rarity for me." Which is ironic, because Murray's first job was working in a comic book art studio...

(snip)


Lenona.