Virgil In Blue

To wrap up this week's look back at the artwork of Virgil Finlay, let's take a look at some of his more 'adult oriented' imagery -

Original Caption: "Watchers saw her white body gleaming amidst the spray." -Weird Tales, June 1937

We've seen previously how Finlay would sometimes redraw earlier works. The piece above repurposes a figure study from two years earlier...

(The magazine wasn't titled Weird Tales for nothing)

It's interesting to note how much of this work came from the late 1930s leading into the early '40s - the same time period that Margaret Brundage was doing so much of her work for the same publishers. In fact, the first image in this post (among others) comes from an issue with a Brundage cover (The Carnal God - see this post)

artwork by Virgil Finlay