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H. L. PARKHURST
The Magnet - 1900
H arry
Lemon Parkhurst
Everybodys - 1902
In
1896
Harry
Parkhurst
was born in July 22, 1876 in
studied at the Art Institute of
Minneapolis, MN.
Chicago.
His parents were David and
In 1898 he worked as a line
Martha Parkhurst. He was
artist designing advertising
an only child. His father was
for Chicago newspapers and
a traveling salesman
for Godey's Magazine. He
.
signed his work :
By 1893 they had moved to
"H. L. Parkhurst."
Chicago and lived at 3517 Ellis Avenue.
Mun seys - 1907
McCall's Magazine - 1916
In 1899 he moved to New
while also benefiting from
York City, where an older
any natural confusion, Harry
artist, named Henry Landon
began to sign his work
Parkhurst, happened to work
"H. L. V. Parkhurst."
at Tiffany and teach at the New York Academy of Fine
The extra "V" came from his
Art. That artist also signed
mother's
his work "H. L. Parkhurst," so
Victor.
maiden
name, Triple-X Western – May 1931
to distinguish himself from this more established artist,
Original Cover for the Complete Detective - February 1931
Complete Detective - June 1931
Detective Novel – April 1933
In 1902 he married Adelaide
where he created freelance
C.
illustrations for :
Parkhurst,
and
they
moved to Peekskill, New
Everybody's Magazine,
York. They lived with his
Harper's Bazaar,
elderly
McCall's Magazine,
parents
at
1899
Crompond Road. The artist
Munsey's Magazine,
commuted
Pearson's Magazine, and
to
his
East
Harlem art studio at 2135 Seventh
Avenue
Woman's Home Companion.
(127th
Street) in New York City,
Detective Novel – December 1933
Original Cover for the Spicy Adventure Stories – December 1934
Spicy Adventure Stories – December 1934
On September 12, 1918 he
Long Island. He commuted
reported for his WWI draft
each day on the Long Island
registration
Railroad to work as the art
recorded
and to
be
was medium
director
of
the
Frank
height, medium build, with
Seaman Advertising Agency,
gray eyes and brown hair. At
at
age 42 he was not eligible
Manhattan,
for military service.
created ads for American
He moved to 9 Third Avenue,
Tobacco, Colgate, Eastman
in Port Washington, NY, on
Kodak, and Goodyear Tires.
470
Forth Avenue in where
Novel Detective – February 1934
he
Novel Detective – April 1934
Original Cover for the Detective Novel – May 1934
Detective Novel Magazine – May 1934
Detective Novel – June 1934
In 1928 he bought a splendid
During the Great Depression
home for $35,000 at 170
the
Brixton Road in Garden City,
collapsed. He began to work
NY, on Long Island, where
for pulp magazines, which
he
wife,
depended on income from
widowed mother, and a live-
newsstand sales instead of
in house maid. He used a
advertising.
second floor room for his art
was the beginning of the
studio.
pulp
lived
with
his
advertising
Ironically,
industry's
prosperous years.
Wild West Stories – March 1934
Original pulp magazine cover illustration - 1934
market
this
most
He drew pen and ink story
Western,
illustrations
Detective, Private Detective,
Fiction
for
Fawcett,
House,
Ranger
Romantic
Publications,
and
most
Romantic
memorably
for
Harry
Stories,
Donnenfeld's
Trojan
Spicy
Hollywood
Detective, Western, Spicy
Adventure,
Detective, Spicy
Short
Spicy
Publications.
Mystery,
Western,
He painted pulp covers for
Triple-X, Wild West Stories,
Complete Detective Novel,
and West Magazine.
Easy Money, Fighting
Original Cover for Spicy Adventure Stories - February 1935
Spicy Adventure Stories – Nov. 1935
In
1937
serialized
SpicyDetective – Jully 1935
he
drew
comic
the strip,
as
some
of
the
interior
Comics.
Murder For Exercise, which
In 1942 he drew Captain
appeared regularly in Spicy
Marvel for Fawcett's Whiz
Detective.
drew
Comics. Before and after the
Dear Little Dude for Spicy
war he created both interior
Western in 1939.
and cover art for The Open
In 1940 he drew the cover
Road For Boys.
He
later
for Cyclone Comics,
Spicy Adventure Stories - February 1935
He was too old to serve in
Harry
Parkhurst
the military during WWII.
eyesight.
He
lost
became
his a
resident of the Burrwood From 1942 to 1944 He drew
Home
for
the
Blind
in
Hopalong Cassidy in Master
Huntington, NY, where he
Comics.
died at age 86 on September 17, 1962.
He was too old to serve in
Spicy Adventure Stories – April 1935
the military during WWII.
Original Cover for Adventure - 1935
Adventure - 1935
Easy Money – April 1936
Spicy Adventure Stories – December 1936
Original Cover for the Spicy Adventure Stories – April 1936
Open Road – November 1936
Spicy Adventure Stories – April 1936
Spicy Detective – July 1935
Spicy Detective – September 1936
Spicy Mystery Stories - 1936
Classic cover features a bound, nearly-nude blonde being menaced by rats and giant floating eyeballs. H. L. Parkhurst gets credit for the cover art. The featured story in this issue is "Zang the Creator" by Lew Merrill. There are many spicy interior illustrations.
Spicy Adventure Stories – March 1937
Original Cover for the Spicy Adventure Stories – November 1937
Open Road – April 1937
Spicy Adventure Stories – November 1937
Spicy Adventure Stories - March 1937
Romantic Western (first issue) - January 1938
Romantic Detective - February 1938
Original pulp magazine cover illustration for Spicy Western - December 1938
Spicy-Adventure - January 1939
For the first half of the 20th century, pulp fiction made up America's most popular form of entertainment, beyond even movies and radio. During that time, some of the nation's finest pop illustrators and painters created untold thousands of original works to adorn the covers of these everyman novels, most in virtual anonymity.
Original Cover for the Spicy Detective – April 1939
Spicy Detective – April 1939
Then, in the 1950s, television came along and finally laid the pulps to rest, bringing an end to an unappreciated art form in the process. The postmodern view of pop culture that has arisen in recent decades has shed new light on the work of the great pulp artists.
Original Cover for the Spicy Western Stories – December 1939
Spicy Western Stories – December 1939
Original pulp magazine cover illustration for Spicy Adventure Stories - July 1939
Who Draws First, Western pulp cover, circa 1930s
Land of Men Unhung, pulp cover
Original Cover for Spicy Detective – July 1940
Smith Yeates-Todd Smith and Tom Yeates Spicy Detective Illustration Original Art (undated)
Spicy Detective – July 1940
Spicy Detective Stories ( Back Cover ) - July 1935
Spicy Adventure - October 1941
Original Cover for The Monster Fringe - 1941
Original Cover for The Monster Fringe - 1941
Spicy Mystery - May 1941
Original pulp magazine cover illustration for Spicy Adventure - October 1941
Planet Stories – Winter 1944
Original Cover for Planet Stories - 1944
Planet Stories – Summer 1945
Planet Stories - 1944
Planet Stories - 1944
Planet Stories – Spring 1945
Planet Stories – Fall 1945
Planet Stories – Winter 1945
Planet Stories – Spring 1946