Working for the Pulps: Popular Illustration in the 1930s

October 12, 2019 @ 1:00 pm EDT - 2:00 pm EDT

Working for the Pulps: Popular Illustration in the 1930s
With illustrator/educator Dennis Dittrich
Saturday, October 12,
1:00 p.m.

Pulp magazines, the popular, inexpensive fiction publications that were read and enjoyed by millions, reached their zenith in the 1930s, though the genre began in earnest in 1896 with The Argosy, a monthly magazine that was printed on low-cost pulp paper. Presented on newsstands alongside scores of glossies, pulp magazines caught the eye of passersby with their colorful, action-packed, scintillating cover art. Illustrator/educator Dennis Dittrich will discuss the art that made pulp magazines visible to an entertainment-seeking public, and explore the process behind the art of the period’s noted practitioners.

Free with Museum admission.

Dennis Dittrich’s clients include Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Field and Stream, Electra Records, Golden Books, Reader’s Digest, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. A past president of the Society of Illustrators, he is teaches in the MFA Illustration Program at FIT, and serves as Associate Professor and Illustration and Illustration Program Coordinator at New Jersey City University.

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It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land on which the Norman Rockwell Museum was built. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.

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