The Spanish Bride - Book Cover Artwork (Signed) (Original)
The Spanish Bride - Book Cover Artwork (Signed) (Original)
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Artist: James E McConnell Medium: Watercolour on Board Size: 14" x 16" (350mm x 408mm) Date: 1955 Signature: Signed by artist lower right in paint Code: McConnellSpaniMH
This is the Signed unique original Watercolour painting by James E McConnell.
The second ever painting by James McConnell for the publisher Alvin Redman. Painted in 1955, published in 1956.
This original front cover artwork for the novel 'The Spanish Bride' by Walter O'Meara also shows the wrap around of the spine bearing the author's name and title. There is also a pasted-on Chief's head which was the publisher's logo.
McConnell paints in his mesmerizingly smooth watercolours, using slightly thicker whites as highlights.
The painting is signed in paint in the lower right hand corner.
James E McConnell (1903 - 1995) Well known as a paperback and book jacket artist, particularly for Westerns, James McConnell never turned his hand to picture strips. Leonard Matthews, seeing his paperback work on display in a bookshop, soon had him working as a cover artist for Amalgamated Press, doing the majority of covers for the all text Western Library, a great many of the Cowboy Comics Library covers and a fair number of covers for Thriller Comics Library.
His robust, action-packed style is instantly recognisable. He always seemed more at home with cowboys rather than historical swashbucklers, his covers for the Western Library being of a particular high standard. Nonetheless, some of his historical covers for Thriller Comics Library are very satisfying for he is a great professional and can turn his hand to any genre. McConnell was an incredibly prolific artist, frequently completing a cover painting and the rough for another painting in the same day.
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