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P.J. Monahan - "Fear"

Artist: P.J. Monahan (All)

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Artwork Details

Title:	P.J. Monahan - "Fear"
Artist:	P.J. Monahan (All)
Media Type:	Paint - Oil
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	856
Likes on CAF:	3 4
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	9/17/2018
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Description

Our friendly neighborhood postwoman delivered this one today. By artist P.J. Monahan, it's from...well, actually, I don't know where it's from.

Monahan did a lot of pulp art, as well as slick magazine art, newspaper art and book art during a nearly 30 year career that ended with his death in 1931. Among his more well known works were several covers for Edgar Rice Burroughs' serials in All-Story. Unlike many pulp artists at the time, Monahan made an effort to get his originals back, and he stored them in a studio he had built at his farm in Woodcliff Lake, NJ. The studio unfortunately burned to the ground in 1928, taking with it the bulk of his originals.

I'd love to figure out where this is from, and so I'll turn it into a bit of a contest. I'll give a free three day membership to next year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, a copy of Art of the Pulps and a copy of Uncovered to the first person who can ID this for me!

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	Doug Ellis ( 1 ) Premium Gallery Owner
Joined:	November 2004
Last Login:	September 2025
Website:	http://pulpvault.com
Country:	UNITED STATES
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Ray Cuthbert
Member Since 2003

Posted on 9/18/2018

That's really stunning! I'd love to have a Monahan!

Ingrid Neilson
Member Since 2015

Posted on 9/18/2018

What a lovely, lush, & vibraint painting ... I'm unfamilar with P.J. Monahan's art but I'll definitely keep my eye open for more of his work. Good luck in finding what this illustration was utilized for.

Michael Scholl
Member Since 2025

Posted on 3/23/2025

Wow!! We collect Monahan art - he was my wife's great-grandfather, but we have never seen this one, Thanks for sharing!!

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