Lorence Bjorklund Ink Illustrations for "Street & Smith's Western Story"

Item Details

Illustrations for short stories Dead Men in the Yukon and Boothill’s Line Rider, 1942
Ink drawings on illustration board
Each signed within composition
Print notations and inscriptions to margins
Artist’s stamp to versos
Illustrations published in Street & Smith’s Western Story magazine, vol. 199 no.4 and no.5

Born in Minnesota, Bjorklund was known for his Western genre scenes. Bjorklund earned his first education in art as an apprentice to a mural painter and drawing lessons from his father. In 1927, he received a scholarship to study art at the Pratt Institute. During this time, he illustrated Western genre pulp publications. Throughout his career, his illustrations were published in over 300 books, including some that Bjorklund authored. He is listed in the 1975 book Fifty Great Western Illustrators by Jeff Dykes.

Condition

- toning, foxing, corner wear, uneven discolorations and label residues throughout the compositions and notable along the margins; slight bow to illustration boards.

Dimensions

- measures one of two.

Item #

ITMG269340