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Weird Tales - September 1937
Cover by Margaret Brundage
Weird Tales - November 1933
Cover by Margaret Brundage
Weird Tales - September 1933
Margaret Brundage cover
Margaret Brundage
During the prohibition years, and at the same time as undertaking illustration work Brundage had also found employment at the infamous bohemian speakeasy The Dill Pickle Club, and it was there she met her husband Myron ‘Slim’ Brundage; a hobo/house painter who was heavily involved in radical politics.
Brundage sold sixty-six original pulp cover illustrations to Weird Tales from 1933 to 1945. Her work often featured fantasy scenes of women trapped in sexually vulnerable situations. Brundage covers were very popular with the readers of Weird Tales, but most of the public was not aware of the artist’s gender, because her work was usually signed “M. Brundage.” When puritanical social forces complained about the overt sexuality of Weird Tales cover art, the editor finally revealed that the artist was a woman, hoping to mollify the perceived offensiveness of her work.
Brundage helped found the South Side Community Arts Center and served on its board in the 1940s and 1950s, thus playing a critical role in establishing an important center of African American culture that exists to this day. The SSCAC is one of two WPA funded Art Centers that has never closed its doors, and is also the earliest African American Art Center to be created in the United States.
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https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/south-side-community-art-center-chicago-il/
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Margaret Brundage (1900 – 1976)
Margaret Brundage (1900 – 1976)
Margaret Brundage (1900 – 1976)
Margaret Brundage (1900 – 1976)
