Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Hannes Bok

Hannes Bok - Pickman's Model, H.P Lovecraft, FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES December 1951

Hannes Bok - The Sentry (A Being Guarding the Entrance to a Martian Canyon), 1944

Hannes Bok - Terminal Quest, 1951

Hannes Bok - Nightmare, 1939

Hannes Bok - Out Of The Storm

Hannes Bok - Fox Woman And The Blue Pagoda

Hannes Bok -  Trailsend Kubilius, 1941

Hannes Bok - Cat God

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Hannes Bok - Venusian Tragedy, 1940

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Hannes Bok - Masquerade, 1942

Hannes Bok - Martian Landscape

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Hannes Bok - Martian Fantasy, 1941

Hannes Bok - Who Goes There? First Edition (Shasta Publishers, 1947). John W. Campbell, Jr

Hannes Bok - Who Goes There? First Edition (Shasta Publishers, 1947). John W. Campbell, Jr, wrap around

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Hannes Bok - Fantasy Fiction magazine June 1953

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Hannes Bok - Venusian Tragedy, 1941

Hannes Bok - Weird Tales - May 1940

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Hannes Bok - Radiation Trap

Hannes Bok - Cosmic Science Fiction

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Hannes Bok - Under the Triple Suns (Stanton A. Coblentz) Fantasy Press, Inc., [1955]

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Hannes Bok - The Sorcerers Ship

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Hannes Bok - Sidewise in Time (Murray Leinster) Shasta Publishers, 1950

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Hannes Bok - Skull Face And Others (Robert E. Howard)

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Hannes Bok - Kinsmen of the Dragon. (Stanley Mullen) Shasta Publishers, [1951].

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Hannes Bok - The Wind, 1941

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Hannes Bok - Bizarre, 1941

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HANNES BOK -  Popular Publications, 1941

Hannes Bok - Kingsmen Of The Dragon

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Hannes Bok - "The White Powers" Limited Edition Lithograph, #32/100 Original Art (1944)

Hannes Bok - "The White Powers" Limited Edition Lithograph, #32/100 Original Art (1944)

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Hannes Bok -  Weird Tales, July 1941

Hannes Bok - The Robot God, circa 1941

Hannes Bok - Preliminary study, 1940s

Hannes Bok - Creature in a Bottle, preliminary study, 1940s

Hannes Bok - Creature and Spaceship, pulp cover preliminary, circa 1950

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Hannes Bok - Robert W Chambers - The Yellow Sign, 1943

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Hannes Bok -  Weird Tales, March 1942

Hannes Bok - Fantasy Costume

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HANNES BOK - Woman Dancing, story illustration, 1949

Hannes Bok - Future Science Fiction Cover, 1942

Hannes Bok - The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. A Bibliography of Fantasy, Weird, and Science Fiction Books Published in the English Language. Shasta Publishers, 1948

Hannes Bok - Clark Ashton Smith. Out of Space and Time. Arkham House, 1942

Hannes Bok - Frank Belknap Long. The Hounds of Tindalos. Arkham House, 1946

Hannes Bok - Planet Stories Cover

Hannes Bok - Mambaloa, 1947

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Hannes Bok - 44

Hannes Bok - Future Science Fiction Cover

Hannes Bok, illustrator - Pan Demos 1,1949

Hannes Bok, illustrator - Pan Demos 2,1949

Hannes Bok - Untitled, 1975

"Hannes Bok, pseudonym for Wayne Woodard (1914-1964), was an American artist, as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry. He painted nearly 150 covers for various science fiction, fantasy, and detective fiction magazines, as well as contributing hundreds of black and white interior illustrations. Bok’s work graced the pages of calendars and early fanzines, as well as dust jackets from specialty book publishers like Arkham House, Shasta, and Fantasy Press. His paintings achieved a luminous quality through the use of an arduous glazing process, which was learned from his mentor, Maxfield Parrish. He was the first artist to win a Hugo Award." - quote from Centipede Press

Some of the above artworks were found at Golden Age Comic Book Stories.

Additional information can be read about Bok at his Wikipedia page.

6 comments:

buzz said...

Holy wow!

phf said...

Cool! I have that first one on my wall!

Mind you, it is a copy I drew myself in pencil for a high school art class. ;-)

jensen said...

absolutely amazing! cheers.

Unknown said...

Fantastic images! Thanks Aeron.

Unknown said...

Once again, I so appreciate the large size of the illustrations that you post. It enables me to see in close up the fantastic pen and ink style of this illustrator.
Gracias.

J. said...

Thanks so much for posting these, especially those preliminaries. It's really great to see a bit into the thought processes behind Bok's work.

It's cool seeing that even with such a clear vision, he still worked everything up from the bottom. Beautiful stuff.