John Philip Falter
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John Philip Falter was an American artist best known for his many cover paintings for The Saturday Evening Post.
Falter in his Chestnut Hill studio, 1977
John Falter painted this recruiting poster in 1943.
Falter used his friend, radio actor J. Scott Smart, as a model for Gramercy Park, the cover of the March 25, 1944 issue of The Saturday Evening Post
Pulp magazine
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Pulp magazines, also called "the pulps", were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955. The word pulp derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines
John Philip Falter
…Grand Central Terminal. At this time in the Great Depression, when most young artists had difficulty finding work, Falter began illustrating covers for pulp magazines. He opened a studio in New Rochelle, New York, which had long been a colony for illustrators, including such artists as Frederic Remington and Norman…
Cover of the pulp magazine Spicy Detective Stories vol. 2, #6 (April 1935) featuring "Bullet from Nowhere" by Robert Leslie Bellem
Planet Stories, a science fiction pulp published between 1939 and 1955
November 1927 issue of Black Mask, featuring The Continental Op
Cover of the pulp magazine Dime Mystery Book Magazine, January 1933