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, Powers (full name Richard Michael Gorman Powers) spent most of his early life being supported by his mother and aunt as his father left the family when Powers was at an early age. At eleven his uncle introduced him to art by giving him a sketch book and although in later life his wife would try to prevent from making any art. He was to become 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 Yves Tanguy. From the 1940s through the 1960s he did many of covers for Doubleday. During the 1950s and '60s, he served as an unofficial art director for Ballantine Books.
His influences were Picasso (he devoted a number of paintings to the infamous man), the cubists, and the surrealists. He also dabbled in abstract art and collage at a later age before dying in 1996 at the age of 75.
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[edit] Reference
- 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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