original art – Page 33

cover art by James Avati

James Avati (American, 1912-2005)

Oil on board
13 x 18 inches (33.0 x 45.7 cm)
Signed lower left

This illustration was published as the paperback cover of A Murder in Paradise by Richard Gehman (Avon, 1956).

Enrich (Spanish, 1939)

Detective Calendar illustration, circa 1974
Oil on gouache on board
14-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches (36.2 x 26.0 cm) (image)
Signed lower right

Gouache on board
20-1/2 x 17-1/4 inches (52.1 x 43.8 cm) (image)
Signed lower right

better image than previously posted

Ernest Chiriacka – aka Darcy – (American, 1920-2010)

The Tussle
Watercolor and ink on board
15-1/4 x 13-3/4 inches (38.7 x 34.9 cm)
Signed with pseudonym lower right

Bang! Gang World cover, May 1934
Oil on canvas
19-3/4 x 19-3/4 inches (50.2 x 50.2 cm)
Not signed

Charles Wesley Copeland (American, 1924-1979)
Case of the Deadly Tease, For Men Only magazine cover, September 1963
Gouache on board
14-3/8 x 11-5/8 inches (36.5 x 29.5 cm) (sight)
Not signed

Gouache on board
19 x 10 inches (48.3 x 25.4 cm) (image)
Not signed

Acrylic on board
15 x 13 inches (38.1 x 33.0 cm)
Not signed

The Girl in the Death Seat, paperback cover
Gouache on board
18-1/2 x 12-3/4 inches (47.0 x 32.4 cm) (image)
Not signed

The present work is on the cover of

Simon and Schuster hardcover, 1960

Robert McGinnis (American, 1926)

Gouache on board
10-1/2 x 13 inches (26.7 x 33.0 cm) (image)
Signed center left