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MURRAY TINKELMAN (1933-2016) "The Mask of Cthulhu."
Cover for the mass market paperback of the August Derleth classic The Mask of Cthulhu (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976). Ink and watercolor on Strathmore bristol board. 457x343 mm; 18x13 1/2 inches, image, on 24x19-inch board. Signed and dated "M. Tinkelman `75" in lower right image; publisher's stamp on verso. Edges taped to 26 1/4x21 1/4-inch matte.
Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Exhibited: Norman Rockwell Museum: "Baseball, Rodeos, and Automobiles: The Art of Murray Tinkelman." 2014.
Murray Tinkelman was an award-winning artist who received illustration's highest honors from the Society of Illustrators, New York Art Directors Club, and The Society of Publications Designers. His work appeared in a variety of publications including "Atlantic Monthly," "Cosmopolitan," "Ladies Home Journal," "McCall's," "The New York Times," "The Saturday Evening Post," and "The Washington Post." In addition to those, he worked for publishers such as Ballantine, Berkley, Doubleday, Putnam, HBJ, Macmillan and Time Life, among many others. Tinkelman was commissioned by the National Park Service to do drawings and paintings of national parks and monuments, as well as by the U.S. Air Force to be an artist-reporter on specific missions. His shows included a one-man exhibit of his baseball art at The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York in 1994, and The United States Sports Academy in Daphne, Alabama in 1995.
