Artzybasheff, Boris
Entry updated 19 July 2023. Tagged: Artist.
(1899-1965) Ukraine-born US illustrator who fled to the US after the Russian Revolution. Although much of his prodigious output – he painted over 200 covers for Time magazine – had a fantasticated feel to it, only a small portion is directly relevant to the fantastic genres. Most notable among these are his cover for the 1926 US reissue of E R Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros (1922) and his set of interior illustrations to Charles G Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao (1935). He also painted the original covers for The Incomplete Enchanter (coll of linked stories 1941) and Land of Unreason (1942), both by L Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. A book of his art is As I See (graph 1954; rev graph 2008 chap). [JGr/DRL]
Boris Artzybasheff
born Kharkiv, Ukraine: 5 June 1899 [25 May 1899 old style]
died New York: 17 July 1965
works
- As I See (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1954) [graph: hb/Boris Artzybasheff]
- As I See (London: Titan Books, 2008) [chap: graph: rev of the above: hb/Boris Artzybasheff]
works illustrated (selected)
- Charles G Finney. The Circus of Dr. Lao (New York: Viking Press, 1935) [hb/Boris Artzybasheff]
about the artist
- Martin Salisbury. The Illustrated Dust Jacket 1920-1970 (London: Thames & Hudson, 2017) [nonfiction: p40f: illus/various: hb/Bill Bragg]
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