John Schoenherr

A blog devoted to the life and work of artist John Schoenherr (1935-2010)

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Uncalculated Risk

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I ran the Queens Half-Marathon with my friend Charlie Nix today and this illustration pretty much sums up how it felt. The runners - or cra...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Big Cat, Little Study

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Dad isn't very well known for his cat paintings, but he did a lot of them in the 1960s and at one point hoped to collect them in a book...
Monday, July 12, 2010

Moonlight at Midday

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I've always liked this small gouache painting on bristol board, but it only just dawned on me that it could have been a study for one o...
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Thursday, July 8, 2010

News From Bear Alley

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A piece by author and editor Steve Holland on his blog, Bear Alley : John Schoenherr, one of the finest SF magazine cover artists of the 19...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Early Risers

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"Early Risers" (oil on canvas, 1994) by John Schoenherr Before plagues of them spread across the United States, Canada Geese w...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

The Impossibles, 1963

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Great color, concept, and composition. This was used on the paperback cover of The Impossibles by Mark Phillips (Pyramid Publications, Ju...
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Mission of Gravity

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Centauri Dreams - The News Forum of the Tau Zero Foundation has a post which features Dad's cover art for Hal Clement’s Mission of Gr...

A Tribute From Sci Fi Wire

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Sci Fi Wire printed this a while back. See the original post for some key science fiction illustrations - and some nice comments... John S...

The Day the Bears Go to Bed

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For a long time I've had a bamboo suitcase filled with Dad-related ephemera: prints and proofs and F&Gs and extracted pages from mag...

Gregory Manchess Remembers

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Artist Gregory Manchess ' generous tribute, " Remembering John Schoenherr ," appeared on Irene Gallo's blog,  The Art Depa...

Classic Horror Film Board's Final Farewells

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Here are some final farewells to John Schoenherr from the Classic Horror Film Board - "This is the place for all fans of classic horro...
Monday, July 5, 2010

The Studio, April 12, 2010

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A few days after Dad died, I took some photos his studio. On the big easel is a snowy owl perched atop an Inuit inukshuk or inunnguaq . It...

New York Times Obituary

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Here is the obituary of John Schoenherr that appeared in The New York Times online on April 14, 2010, and in print the following day. Many ...

An Obituary

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A few days after Dad died, I needed to write his obituary for the local paper and the funeral home's website. I thought it would be more...

A Blog About John Schoenherr

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"Fields of Summer" (1990) by John Schoenherr My father, John Schoenherr, was born 75 years ago today. Since his death in April...
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"Yahn Show-en-hare" is an illustrator, a genealogist, and a researcher and collector of all things regarding Howard Pyle (1853-1911) and John Schoenherr (1935-2010)
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