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S2-MCR864"Lie Down, Killer" by Robert McGinnisLimited Edition Lithograph
Signed & Numbered
Edition Size - 350 + Artist Proofs
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ROBERT McGINNIS
From gallery paintings to film posters to avidly collected book covers, Robert McGinnis has created some of the most visible, influential, and alluring art of the past five decades. Much of that allure can be attributed to the nearly omnipresent “McGinnis Women” – beautiful women rendered with such mesmerizing sensuality and grace that, as one author put it, they could make a book a bestseller among people who couldn’t read.
Born in Ohio in 1926, McGinnis started his career as a teenage apprentice animator for Walt Disney studios. He studied art at Ohio State University and the Central Academy of Commercial Art in Cincinnati, and later moved to New York and joined the Freeman Chaito Studio, where he worked with noted artists Frank McCarthy, Bob Peak and Joe Bowler.
McGinnis painted his first paperback book cover in 1958, launching a career that would include over 1200 book covers. He virtually defined the noir style of classic crime fiction and created some of the romance novel genre’s greatest cover images.
His paintings were the basis for the iconographic posters for films including “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, “Barbarella”, and numerous James Bond movies where he created the idealized “Bond Woman”. McGinnis’s drawings and artwork have appeared in major magazines including “National Geographic”, “Time”, “The Saturday Evening Post”, “Cosmopolitan”, and “Reader’s Digest”.
He was inducted into the prestigious Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame, taking his place beside such greats as Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, and N.C. Wyeth. He maintains a studio in Connecticut, where he has lived and worked for over 40 years.
McGinnis’ lithograph editions include some of his most recognized images, including Agents, Villains and The Babes, a montage of the men who played James Bond – surrounded by a myriad of “babes”, Joker in the Deck and Lie Down, Killer.
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