J. Allen St. John book

[Shonokin]

James Allen St. John was a pulp/portrait/landscape artist who also taught at the Art Institute of Chicago. He's most famous for his Tarzan and Barsoom pulp covers and illustrations.

If I could paint like this guy I'd drop my day job and illustrate full time.

Anyway there was a collection of his line drawings a few years ago but now it's pretty much impossible to find due to the very high price tag. But at the end of next month a new collection of his paintings is coming out. Just a head's up for the pulp art aficionados.

[RedKing]

I plan to be all over this when it comes out! J. Allen St John is one my favorite illustrators, and one of my role models for my own artwork (though my painting skills aren't anywheres near his!!).

[Shonokin]

In the 70s my brother had a few of the original John Carter books with St. John illustrations. I'd always loved the look of them. Very much like Gustave Dore but in pencil or painted and with backgrounds simplified in certain ways that drew me to the characters in a stark, unabashed fashion.
I think this is one of his more famous Barsoom pics, of which this pose and the sword have been borrowed many times over the years.

I'm pretty excited about this myself.