Robert Albert Maguire (1921-2005)- Lovers in a Winter Landscape - Oil on Board P3319

A superb piece of Illustration art by one of its master-practitioners, and in its scale as well as its vision, as big as all outdoors. One of his classier efforts. The art measures 28" x 35", and the frame is 34" x 41". Contact us to arrange special shipping, local delivery, or pickup at the warehouse. Robert Maguire, born in 1921 in New Jersey, painted over six-hundred paperback covers during a more than fifty-year career, mainly featuring luridly sexual females, for publishers including Pocket, Dell, Ace, Harper, Avon, Silhouette, Ballantine, Pyramid, Bantam, Lion, Berkeley, Beacon and Monarch.  He made three to four thousand dollars per cover from Pocketbooks, for a time earning over one hundred thousand dollars a year.  He also did work in watercolor for Norcross Greeting Cards, including Christmas cards of Santa Claus.  As a child, he was taught to draw by his father, an architectural draftsman, with drawing "contests" between them to see which of them could better draw a newspape