Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan (born June 29, 1950) is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years, he worked as an illustrator, specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Since the mid-1990s, he has pursued a fine art career, selling non-commissioned paintings through galleries in the United States and through his website.The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Whelan in June 2009, the first living artist so honored. According to his Hall of Fame citation
His paintings have appeared on the covers of more than 350 books and magazines, including many Stephen King novels, most of the Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey's ''Dragonriders of Pern'' series, Piers Anthony's ''Incarnations of Immortality'' series, the Del Rey edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' ''Mars'' series, Melanie Rawn's ''Dragon Prince and Dragon Star'' series, the Del Rey editions of H. P. Lovecraft's short story collections, the Grand Master edition of Ray Bradbury's fix-up novel ''The Martian Chronicles'', DAW editions of Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné books, numerous DAW editions of C. J. Cherryh's work, many of Robert A. Heinlein's novels including ''Friday'' and ''The Cat Who Walks Through Walls'', the Ace editions of H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy novels, and Tad Williams's ''Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn'', ''Otherland'', and ''Shadowmarch'' series and Brandon Sanderson's ''The Stormlight Archive''. Whelan provided covers and interior illustrations for Stephen King's ''The Gunslinger'' and ''The Dark Tower'', the first and last of his ''Dark Tower'' books.
Cover art by Michael Whelan has graced many music record albums including Demolition Hammer's ''Epidemic of Violence'', The Jacksons' ''Victory''; Sepultura's ''Beneath the Remains'', ''Arise'', ''Chaos A.D.'' and ''Roots''; Soulfly's ''Dark Ages''; Obituary's ''Cause of Death''; and every album by the Elric-influenced metal band Cirith Ungol. He painted original works for the covers of Meat Loaf's ''Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell'' and ''The Very Best of Meat Loaf'' albums and several of his older paintings illustrate the liner notes of the former. In 2009, he painted the cover art for thrash metal band Evile's album ''Infected Nations''. Provided by Wikipedia
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