F. Newton Burcham Shadow Painting recreating The Romanoff Jewels pulp cover

This a nice profile of the Shadow which is a recreation of the 19th pulp cover. It is a small painting approximately 6 x 9.

Burcham is the nephew of illustrator and artist Earl Moran, and began his career at the age of 16 as a portrait artist and landscape painter. After some duty in the US Navy during the Vietnam era he graduated from the Midwest School of Art and Design and began his career in commercial art. He later became the assistant inker to Tony DeZuniga on Savage Sword of Conan and Jonah Hex. In the 1980's Burcham created a number of new characters including the supernatural hero Dark Wolf, a predecessor to Spawn. In the 1990's he worked in the toy industry on such memorable characters as Casper, Gumby, Godzilla, Tarzan, and many others. He has recently done some storyboards for movies, and was featured in a New York City art exhibit.