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"For Humans Only," 1953

Artist: Everett Raymond Kintsler (All)

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Title:	"For Humans Only," 1953
Artist:	Everett Raymond Kintsler (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	196
Likes on CAF:	3 4
Comments:	6
Added to Site:	3/2/2025
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In the course of a long career, Everett Raymond Kintsler (1926-2019) became perhaps America’s most celebrated portrait painter since John Singer Sargent. Literally hundreds of the nation’s great and good, or at least famous, sat for him, including two presidents.

But well before all that, he pushed pens for many of the major comics companies as well as Avon and Ziff-Davis pulps. See for instance this, a bravura illo for Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader # 1 (January 1953). In my book, this is about as good as pen and ink got in the 20th century, and unusually racy for its era.

Alfred Coppel’s short story “For Humans Only” may be the heaviest-handed allegory of racial intolerance I have ever encountered, and I am not forgetting the Star Trek episode about the folks who are both black and white, but on different sides. So humanity created this race of humanoid robots, see? And they built our cities and did all the crap work, see? But us homo saps are prejudiced against them, and we stamp them all with big Rs and call them “R-boys” and forbid them from various places and generally push them around, see?

You get it, right?

PS: There are no R-babes in this story, nekkid or not. Perhaps Kintsler just couldn’t face the assignment without some visual interest.

This piece and the accompanying one have been through the wringer of time and are already in the hands of Austin’s Art Conservatory. I will repost the restored images when they return.

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	Bruce W ( 1 ) Premium Gallery Owner
Joined:	March 2015
Last Login:	September 2025
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Steven Dilworth
Member Since 2012

1 - Posted on 3/3/2025

R for Replicant? Totally amazing illustration by one of the masters.

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 3/3/2025

R's have more fun in this fantasy story! In our timeline, R's want to censor everything and burn books.

Bruce W
Member Since 2015

1 - Posted on 3/3/2025

Marcus Wai wrote:

R's have more fun in this fantasy story! In our timeline, R's want to censor everything and burn books.

Har!

Kevin Koch
Member Since 2015

1 - Posted on 3/3/2025

I wonder if the attractive women were the editor's suggestion, the better to sell copies of the magazine? Good on you for rescuing this and getting it to a restorer. Look forward to seeing the conserved version.

Glynn Crain
Member Since 2011

1 - Posted on 3/3/2025

Very nice Bruce, congrats!

artless artmore
Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 3/4/2025

Realy interesting history and what a nice drawing! Love the incensed pair of eyes at the top

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