Vintage Pulp | Apr 3 2022 |
![THE DISORDER OF THINGS](/images/headline/6500.png)
Looks like neither of us values tidiness or organization, so that's cool.
Ben Ostrick, who signed his work J. Oval, painted this 1963 Pan Books cover for Sloan Wilson's 1960 novel A Sense of Values. Ostrick was an amazing artist, with a colorful and harmonious style that Pan used to good effect on scores of covers. We wrote way back that he was British, but a few online sources say he was actually Australian. We'll dig into that at some point and see if we can figure it out. In the meantime, we have two small collections of his work, here and here. You should have a look.
Edit: We got an e-mail from a family member of Mr. Ostrick, who said, "I read that you weren’t sure if he was English or Australian. He is English and moved to Australia when my Mom was a teenager. They lived alone together until he died."
So there you go. As we always say, the answers tend to come over time. Thank you for writing in with that info. That was extremely kind.