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M. Leone Bracker - Adventure pulp cover March 1911 Prester John

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M. Leone Bracker - Adventure pulp cover March 1911 Prester John Comic Art

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Title:	M. Leone Bracker - Adventure pulp cover March 1911 Prester John
Artist:	M. Leone Bracker (All)
Media Type:	Paint - Oil
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	495
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	5
Added to Site:	12/20/2022
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Description

Earlier this year, at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, I was fortunate enough to acquire the painting used as the cover for the March 1911 issue of Adventure. By artist M. Leone Bracker, it illustrated the first installment of the novel, "Prester John," written by John Buchan. Many thanks to Fred Taraba of Taraba Illustration who had this at his booth.

Unfortunately, the 111 years since it had been painted had not been kind to it. Among other things, the canvas had been removed from its stretcher bars and glued to board, which had gotten wet at some point resulting in mold. So I took it to The Conservation Center in Chicago to do their magic, and I picked up the restored painting earlier today. I took a quick shot of it with my phone to post here; the way it looked when I first acquired it is also posted.

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	Doug Ellis ( 1 ) Premium Gallery Owner
Joined:	November 2004
Last Login:	January 2026
Website:	http://pulpvault.com
Country:	UNITED STATES
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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 12/20/2022

That's great. Looks like the borders were cut off to save it. For something this old, I'm sure that restoring the non art borders wouldn't have been worth it.

Doug Ellis
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 12/20/2022

Marcus Wai wrote:

That's great.� Looks like the borders were cut off to save it.� For something this old, I'm sure that restoring the non art borders wouldn't have been worth it.

It's on canvas, and is now once again on stretcher bars. The excess canvas is wrapped around the bars, as it would have been originally before it was removed from them and glued to the board.

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 12/20/2022

Doug Ellis wrote:

It's on canvas, and is now once again on stretcher bars.� The excess canvas is wrapped around the bars, as it would have been originally before it was removed from them and glued to the board.

It now presents very nicely!

Peter Sullivan
Member Since 2006

Posted on 12/21/2022

They did a wonderful conservation job on this. I am always amazed that art survives previous careless owners.

Ray Cuthbert
Member Since 2003

Posted on 12/21/2022

Historic!

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