Posted on 7/24/2022

Oh, that is gorgeous, wow! This is the first non-painted piece I've ever seen by Dodd and as often happens, there's a certain spontaneous energy in looser pencilled pieces that is rarely recaptured by artists when they translate those pencilled works into paintings. Thankfully this piece was published as is so that none of that free flowing spontaneity is lost. Just an incredible amount of suspense as well as all-out sexiness going on here. Beautiful doesn't even begin to cover it. Between this and the Freeman Elliott piece you posted, you've already won the entire week on CAF postings!

1 - Posted on 7/24/2022

I agree! I framed this one immediately. And when i did the research to find the magazine I saw lots of other pencil work illustrations he did during a certain period of time and they were all really nice. He was superb with just using pencils! I had another one as well that was nice but I ended up giving it to Heritage not that long ago and it made a profit for me to help pay for this one.

Posted on 7/25/2022

That's great! It's always nice to be able to use art to help pay for other art we want, so we don't constantly have to reach into our pockets. It's a shame that so much of the art these artists created isn't known, even to those of us who are familiar withtheir work and collect it, simply because mcu of it only exists as interior published illustrations in the magazines that most of us don't have collections of!

1 - Posted on 7/25/2022

Interior illustrations are the harder ones to identify for sure. I know a few collectors that have full runs of men's adventure magazines and occasionally show them an illustration from an unknown issue, but NONE of them have come through with the answer. If I had those magazines I would be looking through everything to locate it, it's my favorite pastime to research illustration art. And usually it can be homed in to certain titles and years based on the artist and style they were using at the time.

I do major research with Adam and Knight related adult magazines as well as Parliament magazine titles. i must have five hundred interiors for those and still trying to get a lot of the magazines.

I also subscribe to saturday evening post and about to subscribe to esquire because you have full access to all their back issues online. Such amazing stuff. Filled with wonderful illustrations. I wish cosmopolitan had an archive to access but they don't.

Posted on 7/25/2022

Wow, I didn't even know there was such a thing as the entire Saturday Evening Post archive that people can subscribe to. Same with Esquire. That's pretty cool!

Posted on 7/25/2022

Hours of fun looking through them!