ROY G. KRENKEL - Barsoom An Original Ink Illustration Drawing (circa 1960s) ERB

When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

ROY G. KRENKEL - Barsoom An Original Ink Illustration Drawing (circa 1960s) ERB:
$300.00

Barsoom!An Original pen and ink drawing by Roy G. Krenkel. 8.5 x 11 on thin paper.This series of drawings executed on a single sheet of paper during the 1960s by Roy G. Krenkel relates to the mythical world of Barsoom and are the kind of drawings Roy often did when exploring different ways of visualizing a final illustration. In this way he was working in the great tradition of past masters of pen and ink illustration like E. J. Sullivan and Norman Lindsay who often visualized various scenes in different way before moving on to the final version. Norman Rockwell was also notable for doing countless different takes on a scene before finalizingthe scene for one of his Saturday Evening Post covers.In doing these types of preparatory sketches Krenkel was working in a very different way from his friend Frank Frazetta who claimed in an interview that Roy poured so much energy into his preparatory drawings that he often had little of that energy left for the final drawing although this is of course highly conjectural. In fact it was Frank\'s avoidance of doing much preparatory work when executing one of his famed Burroughs and Howard covers that caused him endless grief when in later years the ability to work at white hot speed and carry an illustration straight to its finished form began to dry up. With Krenkel it was the opposite as he always tried to be well prepared before moving on to a finished work. There may have been an occasional loss of spontaneity in the finished version but there was always a superb evocation of the scene depicted be it the steamy jungles of Africa or the arid plains of Barsoom. Both artists had their own methods of working and both produced exciting work but Roy had one advantage over Frank and that was the fact that he had an encyclopedic knowledge of the material he was illustrating while Frazetta often had notreally read the material thoroughly. In this way in direct conflict with RGK\'s own statements that he was essentially a picture maker and Frank an illustrator it is my feeling that Frank was a great picture maker and Roy a great illustrator who also produced some great pictures.
This superb evocation of the terrain of Barsoom with its myriad protagonists and exciting alternative compositions by a past master who did more than any other illustrator of his generation to put these worlds on our visual map is a great drawing and a formidableexample of the power of the mind\'s eyeand comes form the artist\'s collection of his own work never having been offered for sale before . In addition it has been initialed in tiny letters at the bottom right.
Shipping is $10 for USPS Priority mail for the USA or less, foreign to be determined.We always combine shipping! Please check out my recently updated website,my other sales now listed.Thank youfor looking!