WWI Aviation books cover art

[dpolglaze]

Haven't seen these posted yet ...

by G. Pentland






Dan

[dpolglaze]

Got a few more shots ...

Another German cover - don't know whose


Harleyford didn't always use Carrick. This one is C. Rupert Moore


more Clayton Knight


and a Barry Weekley


Tired of cover art? Never.

Dan

[FliegerJG1]

Here are some of my favorites. Apologies for the bad photography. I especially enjoy the images of the red triplanes in these.

[dpolglaze]

The Sopwith variety this time





Artists unknown, but I'm guessing the Fighting Triplanes one I can figure out when I look at the book, which isn't here right now ...

Dan

[karrart]

On the Whitehouse Sky Kings book, I believe that batch of Sopwith Triplanes on the cover is by Jim Deneen, subject of a query in another thread here in the art section.
Robert Karr
OLD BIRDS STAYING ALIVE - THE AVIATION ART OF ROBERT KARR

[Gregvan]

Hi,

Friend Robert is absolutely right. That beautiful (if unlikely) scene of Sopwith Tripes of Collishaw's 'Black Flight' climbing to attack a Staaken bomber is by Jim Deneen. I still have the large poster-size print of this and the other Deneen paintings I bought as a teenager.

I looked for the artist of "The Fighting Triplanes" cover, but couldn't find him listed anywhere on the dust jacket or in the book.

Anyway, this cover drawing for Cecil Lewis' classic Farewell to Wings is by British aviation artist Leonard Bridgman, who also illustrated the book with marvelous studies of the aircraft Lewis was describing.

[Kirk R. Lowry]

Bonjour mes amis

I believe that the art on the cover of The Fighting Triplanes was by J.D. Carrick ... that is what is indicated on page 4.

It is interesting to see the dust jacket for Aircraft Of The 1914-1918 War ... the copy I have has no jacket, but, features artwork on the cover by Joseph Simpson entitled A De Haviland 9 outwitting Albatros D.V's which had been published in the Illustrated London News (it is noted as a Dust Cover Illustration so it would seem that there was originally a jacket for that, a 1954 edition). That book has a certain charm ... and some of the most inaccurate three views published of Great War Aircraft. I do, however, appreciate the fact that while the Albatros D.V or Albatros D.Va is not included as a major type the Fokker D.VI is!

J'aime beaucoup le Fokker D.VI!

Salut!
Kirk

[Gregvan]

Hi Kirk,

Thanks for that bit of info; I thought the Fighting Triplanes cover looked like Carrick's work.


I have the Harborough Publishing Co., Ltd. 1954 edition of Fighter Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War and it does have its dust jacket with the Joseph Simpson painting you describe. Dan's must be a different edition.

Greg

[dpolglaze]

Kirk and Greg,

Thanks for the info. My Fighting Triplanes is the Macmillan US edition of 1969, and doesn't even have a page four to state who the artist is.

As for Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War, there were two editions. The one I pictured is the 1946 Harborough first edition. I have the 1954 as well, but like Kirk's, it is not in a dust jacket. The cover illustration is gray scale by Joseph Simpson.

Dan

[Cruz Verras]

Hello to all.
Now for a few more pulps.


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Check the cover of Mayday. That's what I call a blast from the past.

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