Chris Dowgin: An Illustrator from a quirky little town called Salem.

Thursday, June 9, 2016

The National Museum of American Illustration is Filled with Fantasies and Boyhood Dreams

There Got a Little of Everything...

The National Museum of American Illustration

The American Imagist Collection has been assembled over more than four decades and is comprised of the finest American illustration art works extant; including the largest collection of originals by Maxfield Parrish, second largest collection of Norman Rockwell, largest J.C. Leyendecker collection, Howard Pyle ("Father of American Illustration"), NC Wyeth, Charles Dana Gibson, James Montgomery Flagg, Jessie Willcox Smith, Howard Chandler Christy, Violet Oakley, John Falter, and over 150 others. They exhibit approximately 125 to 150 works at a time, much like the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. They are exhibited in a distinguished architectural setting of great note. An on-going rotation of art will complement the permanent portion of the Collection on display.

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The National Museum of American Illustration

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

A Walk Through the Unzipping Tree

I Have Seen Everything When I Have Seen Pigs Fly...

If you want a real fun tale about Salem follow Mr. Zac through the Unzipping Tree and enter the magical whimsical side of Salem! Go ahead and read A Walk Through Salem if you dare! You will never be the same afterward...The book is available at Remember Salem, the Harry Potter store. Also on Amazon.com.

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On Google Books

Violet Oakley: Illustrator of the Week

Oakley Get Your Guns...

Violet Oakley

She has this amazing stained glass quality to her paintings. They shine with the radiance of the sun through colored glass, quite amazing!
Check her out!

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Violet Oakley

Wonderful Places on the North Shore of Boston

Who is that kid on the balloons....

Max Teller once had a surprise when he went to grab a balloon from the man in front of the Frog Pond in Boston. The surprise was the balloon seller kept the balloon he wanted and gave him the rest. This began an amazing adventure over the North Shore. Now can you name all of the locations in the illustrations below? Prove you are a true Bostonian!

So how many did you guess?

Cheers,

Chris

To find out more about Max Teller's Amazing Adventure visit Salem House Press and buy the book on Amazon.com. Also you can read Max Teller's blog about everything flying from 1950's pulp fiction rockets, the X-Prize, hot air balloons, and the history of flight. Everything about flying he posts about, so head on over and start reading!

Black Cat Magazine Salem MA

Here Pussy, Pussy...

Salem House Press's Arkham: Tales From the Flipside is not the first magazine from Salem. Take a look at these covers from a distant time in this great city's past.

The magazine's first editor was Herman Umbstaetter (1851–1913).^[3]^[4] It is best known for publishing the story "A Thousand Deaths" by Jack London in the May 1899 issue.^[5] Umbstaetter's magazine also carried material by Rupert Hughes, Susan Glaspell, Ellis Parker Butler, Alice Hegan Rice, Holman Day, Rex Stout, O. Henry, Charles Edward Barns, and Octavus Roy Cohen.^[2] Although most of its fiction was nonfantastic, The Black Cat occasionally published science fiction stories by authors such as Frank L. Pollack, Don Mark Lemon and Harry Stephen Keeler.^[3] It is notable for publishing, in May 1902, an early and uncharacteristically "weird" story by O. Henry entitled "The Marionettes." It also printed the horror story "The Mysterious Card" (1896) by Cleveland Moffett. Clark Ashton Smith contributed two adventure stories to The Black Cat.^[3] One noted writer who appeared in the magazine's later years was Henry Miller.^[6]

For now check out Arkham: Tales From the Flipside back issues on Amazon.com and visit their page on Salem House Press's website to get free Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Adventure, and Fairy Tale eBooks and streaming Old Time Radio Shows like X-Minus 1and more!!!

Edward G. Hulton

May the Real Slim Shandy Stand Up...

Edward G. Hulton

Here are the prints my Great Grandfather had made for some of the original silent films in the country. He moved from Manchester England after an argument with his father and left behind England's largest newspaper publishing company that his father started. He had worked for this premiere print shop before starting his own that would print most of the Broadway posters and playbills during his life time.