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Michael Whelan (June 29, 1950) is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years, he worked as an illustrator, specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Since the mid-1990s, he has pursued a fine art career, selling non-commissioned paintings through art galleries in the United States and through his website. |
Michael Whelan (June 29, 1950) is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years, he worked as an illustrator, specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Since the mid-1990s, he has pursued a fine art career, selling non-commissioned paintings through art galleries in the United States and through his website. |
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The [[Science Fiction Hall of Fame]] inducted Whelan in June 2009, the first living artist so honored. According to his Hall of Fame citation: |
The [[Science Fiction Hall of Fame]] inducted Whelan in June 2009, the first living artist so honored. According to his Hall of Fame citation: |
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His paintings have appeared on the covers of more than 350 books and magazines, |
His paintings have appeared on the covers of more than 350 books and magazines, |
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Revision as of 08:17, 23 January 2020
Michael Whelan (June 29, 1950) is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years, he worked as an illustrator, specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Since the mid-1990s, he has pursued a fine art career, selling non-commissioned paintings through art galleries in the United States and through his website.
Whelan has illustrated numerous science-fiction and fantasy novels and music album covers over the past five decades. He is now semi-retired, but will occasionally illustrate books. He illustrated The Gunslinger and The Dark Tower.
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Whelan in June 2009, the first living artist so honored. According to his Hall of Fame citation:
Michael Whelan is one of the most important contemporary science fiction and fantasy artists, and certainly the most popular. His work was a dominant force in the transition of genre book covers away from the surrealism introduced in the 1950s and 1960s back to realism.
His paintings have appeared on the covers of more than 350 books and magazines,
Gallery
