The Secret Door by Tom Lovell

Does it get any better than Tom Lovell’s The Secret Door?

Lovell was an American artist whose early work appeared in pulp magazines and then when the pulps faded out, he transitioned to slick magazines and advertising art.  Lovell was inducted into the Society of Illustrators’ Hall of Fame in 1974.

Lovell said he considered himself a storyteller with a brush.  The painting above is an excellent example of that.  If this was a movie poster, I’d want to see it and if it was an illustration for a story, I’d want to read it.

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