Richard M. Powers
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Richard M. Powers (February 24, 1921 – March 9, 1996) was a science fiction illustrator.
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[edit] Life and work
Born in Chicago 1921 into a Catholic family, Richard Michael Gorman Powers spent most of his early life supported by his mother and aunt. His father left the family when Powers was young. At eleven, Powers was introduced to art when his uncle gave him a sketch book, although in later life his wife would try to prevent from making any art. He became one of the most influential science fiction artists of all time.
He began by working in a conventional pulp paperback style, but quickly evolved a personal Surrealist idiom influenced by the cubists and surrealists, especially Picasso and Yves Tanguy. He also dabbled in abstract art and collage at a later age before dying in 1996 at the age of 75.
From the 1940s through the 1960s, he did many of covers for Doubleday. During the 1950s and 1960s, he served as an unofficial art director for Ballantine Books.
It has been announced that he will be inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle on June 21, 2008.[1]
[edit] See also
- Frank Collection
[edit] References
- Frank, Jane; "The Art of Richard Powers", London : Paper Tiger, 2001. ISBN 1855858908
[edit] External links
- Dave Hartwell's account of Richard M. Powers
- A large collection of Richard M. Powers' published artwork: The Powers Compendium
- Richard M. Powers at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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