Every now and then I’ll run across an auction with some realllllllly nice SF art, but the popular stuff always ends up being really pricey, doesn’t it? I mean, when you see the original Frank R. Paul painting for “The Asteroid of Death” or one of the original Ed Emshwiller paintings for Have Space Suit—Will Travel when first serialized in F&SF...well, it’s gonna cost. The bidding just goes up and up and up, and one can only watch with a vague longing.
Well, recently I came across the original Steele Savage painting that was used as the cover for the 1971 Ace printing of Heinlein’s 1956 Scribner’s juvie, Time for the Stars. The piece is stylized and bold, as his work from that period tends to be, and it’s rather pretty in its own way. I had a couple extra shekels in my pouch from that coronavirus stimulus check, and I really wanted to help out the economy by keeping everything in flow, so...win-win, especially when bidding wasn’t too deadly.
In any event, I finally received this nifty piece, and its image now is scanned to the “Scribner’s YA/Juveniles” page of my Heinlein cover art galleries.
Enjoy!
Rafeeq
Well, recently I came across the original Steele Savage painting that was used as the cover for the 1971 Ace printing of Heinlein’s 1956 Scribner’s juvie, Time for the Stars. The piece is stylized and bold, as his work from that period tends to be, and it’s rather pretty in its own way. I had a couple extra shekels in my pouch from that coronavirus stimulus check, and I really wanted to help out the economy by keeping everything in flow, so...win-win, especially when bidding wasn’t too deadly.
In any event, I finally received this nifty piece, and its image now is scanned to the “Scribner’s YA/Juveniles” page of my Heinlein cover art galleries.
Enjoy!
Rafeeq
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