6/30/2023 0 Comments Tomorrow and Beyond by Ian Summers![]() ![]() ![]() In rummaging about for a bit information about Alexander’s career, I also recently noticed that, in his 1978 book Tomorrow and Beyond: Masterpieces of Science Fiction Art, the famous art director Ian Summers selected twelve (!) paintings by Alexander for display, but only six by Paul Lehr, six by John Berkey, and six by the great Richard Powers second in terms of numbers was Steve Hickman with nine paintings, and third was Don Maitz with eight. Alexander is a dab hand at painting spaceships and machinery in the vein of John Berkey, he handles human figures and creatures just fine, thank you very much, and he obviously knows a thing or two about brushwork, composition, colour theory, and so on. ![]() 1937) is not an illustrator whose name carries any weight with me, but I recently noticed that I have several novels with cover art by “Alexander” in my collection, and following a bit of close inspection, I began to realize why, beginning in the early 1970s, SF publishers like Ace, Baen, Ballantine, Del Rey, and Fawcett, lined up to publish his work. ![]()
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