Friday, August 24, 2007
Illustration: More From The Monkey Man, Lawson Wood
This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for more jaw dropping images from classic illustrated books and magazines.

Awhile back, we featured an article on the "Monkey Painter", Lawson Wood. Mike Fontanelli recently brought by a big stack of vintage Colliers magazines with Wood covers for us to scan. Check these babies out!






The other day, I was surfing blogs and I came across a post that popped my eyes on Will Finn's blog, Small Room. It featured scans of a fabulous Wartime era calendar by Wood from Will's collection. I dropped him a note and he generously brought it by for us to scan for the Archive. Here are a few samples...





There are more images from this great calendar in Will's article on Lawson Wood. If you haven't bookmarked Will's page yet, you should. Where else are you going to find inspiration and insight like the stuff on Will Finn's Small Room?
Many thanks to Will Finn and Mike Fontanelli for their generous support of the Archive project.
If you found this post useful, see our first post on... Lawson Wood, The Monkey Painter and our posts on 1940s Colliers Illustration and Colliers From The 30s.
Also see... The Genius Of Miguel Covarrubias, Wartime Propaganda Posters Part One and Part Two, Will Finn's Letter From Ward Kimball, John Bauer's Bland Tomtar Och Troll / Frank Reynolds Paints Pickwick / Arthur Szyk's The New Order / Artzybasheff's Neurotica, Machinalia and Diablerie
I carefully choose the "Also See" links at the bottom of each post to tip you off to great related stuff that you might have missed. Click on them!
Thanks
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive
Labels: anthropomorphism, birds, colliers, illustration, lawson wood, monkeys





























4 Comments:
jeeziss steve! i can barely keep up with all the great stuff of late! thanks for the nod on lawson wood, mike's collection is brilliant.
the milt gross stuff is unbelievable. how i love that guy and thanks to you and kent for showing me the originals last week.
and that bakshi piece is great.
PS I found the sibley tiger and will bring it by this week.
see ya!
will
http://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2007/06/world-war-ii-posters.html - I have 3 other Wood posters online
These are really great! That Rooster cover and especially that Collier's with the parrots are freakin' me out! Thanks for the great post and to Will Finn for the link here!
this is all i dream of, every click on this site brings lots of joy, a dream come through. this is a great site....WAOW i'm short of words.
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