Look Here: The cavalcade of Jones covers continues…

 Posted by RC at 1:43 pm  Book/Magazine Covers (All), Book/Magazine Covers (Jones), Illustration Art, Jeffrey "Jeff" Catherine Jones, Look Here
Nov 262010
 

Here are three more covers with art by Jeffrey Jones, scanned from the copies I have on hand at RCN headquarters here in the Queen City and posted below in order of publication:

You can see the photo reference for the first cover — which, in terms of draughtsmanship and painting technique, I would describe as the weakest of the three, though I do find the composition interesting — on Jeffrey Jones’s official Web site. It’s the first image on this page, right beside the figure reference for the painting Age of Innocence.

The N. C. Wyeth influence is pretty obvious in Jones’s Nine Princes cover — see, for instance, Wyeth’s paintings for Robin Hood, etc. Years later, Jones revisited the idea of the knight on horseback in his Game of Thrones painting. Notice how the Wyeth influence is no longer right on the surface in the later painting but has been absorbed and transformed into a style that is less about trying on techniques and motifs like pieces of clothing and more about the pleasure of manipulating and thinking in paint.

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Look Here: Four variations on a “meaningless gesture,” by Jeffrey Jones

 Posted by RC at 2:52 pm  Connections, Drawings and Sketches (Jones), Illustration Art, Jeffrey "Jeff" Catherine Jones, Look Here
Nov 192010
 

This post is a sequel to a previous effort that featured two Zebra-Kensington REH covers, with art by Jeffrey Jones (as usual, click the image below to view a larger version):

jeffrey-jones_variations-on-a-meaningless-gesture

“After a few years in NYC a friend of mine, a great artist, much older than me, the late Roy G. Krenkel, told me that I was the Master of the Meaningless Gesture. Well, I do this in my art because I don’t want to tell anyone anything. Also in my words, like my poem. I want the people to bring themselves to the work, based on their own experience.” — Jeffrey Jones, autobiography

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Look Here: “Colour Your Dreams” and more by Jeffrey Jones

 Posted by RC at 9:36 am  Book/Magazine Covers (All), Book/Magazine Covers (Jones), Ephemera (Jones), Illustration Art, Jeffrey "Jeff" Catherine Jones, Look Here
Nov 192010
 

When I win, you win:

No, I didn’t win that copy of Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love from an ebay auction, but I thought you might appreciate having a scan readily available to compare with the black-and-white original art that appeared on the cover of Art Show. As you can see, it was the fact that Jones’s original black-and-white artwork was mostly continuous tone that gave the Dark Mansions cover its striking appearance, which I’d characterize as somewhere between a typical comic book cover and a hand-coloured photograph.

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Look Here: Two Zebra/Kensington REH covers, with art by Jeffrey Jones

 Posted by RC at 12:23 pm  Book/Magazine Covers (All), Book/Magazine Covers (Jones), Connections, Fine Art, Illustration Art, Jeffrey "Jeff" Catherine Jones, Look Here
Nov 172010
 

As I noted on this blog a long time ago, Jones’s paintings for Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corporation were one of the high points of the artist’s career as a cover artist. What I find interesting when I compare the two covers posted below, though, is the difference in Jones’s imagery and technique from one to the other. Whereas Legion from the Shadows features a rather abstractly composed fantasy battle scene delineated in thin washes of oil paint with relatively little opaque overpainting — some of the lightest lights in the painting have been created simply by wiping out the paint to expose the white ground — The Sowers of the Thunder explicitly hearkens back to the imagery and technique of James McNeill Whistler as evidenced in works such as Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony and The Artist’s Studio, both of which I’ve included below for the sake of easy comparison. Whistler and Robert E. Howard — an odd couple if ever there was one!

The final two images above provide a comparison between the figure in the right foreground of The Sowers of the Thunder and the original art for one of the plates in Jones’s As a Child portfolio (Colchester, CT: Black Lotus, 1980).

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Connections: Frazetta and Jones

 Posted by RC at 9:58 am  Connections, Frank Frazetta, Jeffrey "Jeff" Catherine Jones
Nov 162010
 

Below you’ll find images of the original and revised versions of Frazetta’s painting, both of which include the helmeted, injured figure in the bottom left corner, as well as two details of the helmeted, injured figure in the Jones cover, one of which I’ve flipped horizontally for ease of comparison.

Not copied. But definitely “inspired by”… though I’m not certain who was inspired by whom. Near as I can tell, the Jones cover was published first, in 1970; the Frazetta, second, in 1971. So make of that what you will…

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Look Here: Three more paperback covers, with art by Jeffrey Jones

 Posted by RC at 9:44 am  Book/Magazine Covers (All), Book/Magazine Covers (Jones), Illustration Art, Jeffrey "Jeff" Catherine Jones, Look Here
Nov 162010
 

Yes, more.

I’ve looked at a lot of art by Jeffrey Jones over the years, and I have a pretty good memory for images, so I’m always surprised when I come across a Jones cover that I’ve never seen before. That’s the case with The Purple Pirate by Talbot Mundy, which just yesterday I stumbled upon among the used paperbacks at the local Value Village store. It’s unfortunate the book isn’t in better condition, but it was so cheap, and so rare, that I couldn’t pass it up in the hope of finding a better copy at some later date. There’s a sort-of Frazetta swipe on that cover, too; or maybe Frazetta sort-of swiped from Jones. (Anyone know which painting came first?) It’s the fallen soldier in the lower left of the painting. In my next post, I’ll provide a side-by-side comparison so you can see what I mean.

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Look Here: The Guardians #1 and #2, with cover art by Jeffrey Jones

 Posted by RC at 10:17 am  Book/Magazine Covers (All), Book/Magazine Covers (Jones), Illustration Art, Jeffrey "Jeff" Catherine Jones, Look Here
Nov 132010
 

From the growing vintage paperback library of yours truly, here are two novels of “occult Evil” by Peter Saxon, with cover art by Jeffrey Jones:

Very, very nice.

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Ebay Win: Various publications with art by Jeffrey Jones

 Posted by RC at 9:26 am  Book/Magazine Covers (Jones), Ebay Win, Jeffrey "Jeff" Catherine Jones
Nov 022010
 

Yesterday, I won an ebay auction for 12 items with art by Jeffrey Jones, some of which I already own, but the majority of which I don’t. Here’s the list that was provided by the seller, followed by the auction images (although, of course, I intend to post better scans once I have the items in hand):

8 paperback books with Jeffrey Jones cover paintings

The Planet Wizard by John Jakes
Day of Beasts by John Muller
The Dirdir by Jack Vance
Swords in the Mist by Fritz Leiber
Dark Planet by Hunter
Uncharted Stars by Andre Norton
Sargasso of Space by Andre Norton
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny

The paperbacks vary in condition. Most are decent. Some have surface wear, and corner bumps. [....]

The two tabloid issues of ART SHOW from 1977 and 1978. #1 has Jones art inside and #2 has the DARK MANSION OF FORBIDDEN LOVE cover printed from the original art. This is what the painting actually looks like. The color was added photographically for the printed comic book.

Jeff Jones postcard from a privately printed set from around 1974 which included Frank Frazetta, STEVE HARPER, Mike Nally, and Norman Lindsay.

COLOUR YOUR DREAMS — with Jones covers and one image inside. Also inside are drawings by Kaluta, Wrightson (a very early Frankenstein piece), Barry Smith, Fujitake, Dave Cochrum, Roy Krenkel, and others. Nice portfolio — 32 pages. Published in 1972.

YOU NEED NOT BOTHER CLICKING THE IMAGES BELOW;
THEY’RE ALREADY DISPLAYED AT FULL SIZE.
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET.

Regular visitors to RCN may recall that I already own and have posted scans of four out of eight of the paperbacks pictured above; the other four, however, will be new to this site, assuming they are in good enough condition to produce a decent scan. But that being said, the main reason I bid on the lot is to get the postcard, the two issues of Art Show, and the Colour Your Dreams portfolio publication.

All of which is to say: Jones fans, you have something to look forward to here at RCN in a couple of weeks!

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