My favorite of all the illustrators working in this loose pretty-girl style of mid-century. Hurst was the most colorful and the most flamboyant. For more images, click on this link.
Hurst at his best. Collier's Magazine for 19 July 1952. Click on the images to enlarge them.
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More in the next post and a look at the big new book of Hurst illustrations.
Mitch Itkowitz's book, Earl Oliver Hurst, published by Graphic Collectibles Press.
Posted by: Paul Giambarba | May 28, 2010 at 05:02 PM
Anyone know the name of the book mentioned about Hurst? He was first reader of the Christian Science services on Governors Island in the early 50s.
Posted by: Bruce Tone | May 28, 2010 at 11:04 AM
Thankyou both for your information on Hurst, he was and is a great inspiration and is a perfect artist model for my design project :)
Posted by: Lara | March 13, 2007 at 01:57 AM
Thank you for these images Mr Raglin.
Posted by: Li-An | May 20, 2006 at 10:14 AM
Hurst did more than just pretty girls. His stylish and relaxed work for The Big Book of Space has a sense of playfulness that is unique to this genre. Check out some examples at:
http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~jsisson/bbofsp.htm
Posted by: Jack Raglin | May 06, 2006 at 12:14 AM
Thanks, Ron and Li-An. The next upload will post some images from Mitch Itkowitz's book, Earl Oliver Hurst, published by Graphic Collectibles Press.
Posted by: giam | May 05, 2006 at 08:22 AM
There is a nice book about Hurst available.
Great blog, I am happy to find it :-)
Posted by: Li-An | May 04, 2006 at 09:36 AM
This is great stuff--thanks so much for sharing.
Posted by: Ron AmoriM | May 01, 2006 at 02:32 PM