Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was the Woodie Guthrie of Americana Art. He, Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry were the main artists of the Regionalist art movement, where artists depicted rural and small-town America during the Great Depression. His work is like a Steinbeck novel on canvas. When I […]
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Basil Gogos (1929 – 2017) was born in Egypt to Greek parents. His family emigrated to America when he was 16. Not long after arriving in America; Gogos pursued a career in art, attending multiple art schools in New York City. In 1959 he won a Pocket Books competition to […]
If you follow our Instagram page you’ve probably seen some of the Gil Elvgren reference pictures next to the completed work we put up time to time. For the longest time I’ve been curious about the unnamed models who’s faces adorn the pulp paperbacks and vintage calendars we still look […]
You can’t deny the influence Mario Puzo’s The Godfather had on future creators who in turn became our influences here at American Pulps. I read The Godfather when I was in college and I loved it. But it wasn’t until much later that I found out the 1969 novel was […]
When people ask us what kind of stuff we write, we like to show them the painting above by Mort Künstler. We love everything about this right down to the bookshelf nightstand. I mean, OK, this guy’s obviously going through a rough patch in his life but at least he […]
Here’s another American Pulps Spotlight where we take a person from the American Pulps community and interview them. We have such an amazing community through social media and we want to give props where props are due. This week it is Skye Barak: Tell us a little bit about yourself. […]
This is our very first American Pulps Spotlight where we interview a person from the American Pulps community. We have such an amazing community through social media and we want to give props where props are due. This week it’s Stu Hepcat: Tell us about yourself: I’m a tattoo artist […]
These are some of our favorite Men’s Mag covers. They usually have a shirtless man sometimes accompanied by a woman in varying states of undress getting attacked by a wild animal in some desolate location. It’s really everything you want. You don’t need to read the story, you already know, […]
The first publishers with the brains to realize the average person does in fact judge a book by its cover were the people who published pulp paperbacks. Below are the artists who grabbed your attention at the newsstand and sold countless magazines, paperbacks, and straight-up sleaze. Pulp art sold a hell […]
Sally lives and works in Pasadena California, is a USC graduate and was married to the late Richard D. Bunkall another painter. This will be the first of many posts that showcases stuff that inspires the American Pulps team. Whether it’s movies, music, art, or real life people we take out […]