Jeff, that's just the kind of myth-busting we need. I very much apppreciate your comments, keep 'em coming!
I have a lot of things, but I suppose the world can barely contain the things written about HPL and his peripheral contacts. That's why I need you {readers} to help me uncover these things. :)
----- Original Message ----
From: Jeff Barnes
To: My-Lovecraft-Blog-Group@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:48:31 PM
Subject: Margaret Brundage
This is not actually true; it's just popular myth. I
read an interview with Margaret Brundage in which she
said that she usually worked from her own imagination
and only rarely would hire a model. As for using her
daughters, this is from Wikipedia:
L. Sprague de Camp is often quoted as claiming she
used her daughters as models; but Brundage had no
daughters. In the letters page for Savage Tales
magazine, No.5 (July, 1974), Robert Weinberg, an
authority on pulp magazines, wrote "much as I hate to
discredit a good story, WT cover artist Margaret
Brundage did not have a daughter who posed for her. As
Mrs. Brundage lives in Chicago and I have interviewed
her, this is straight from the artist's mouth."
I also remember reading, somewhere, that it's not true
that HPL used to tear off the covers of his copies of
Weird Tales. I think I might have read that in S.T'
Joshi's biography of Lovecraft but I will have to
check to be sure.
Jeff
From: Jeff Barnes
To: My-Lovecraft-Blog-Group@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:48:31 PM
Subject: Margaret Brundage
This is not actually true; it's just popular myth. I
read an interview with Margaret Brundage in which she
said that she usually worked from her own imagination
and only rarely would hire a model. As for using her
daughters, this is from Wikipedia:
L. Sprague de Camp is often quoted as claiming she
used her daughters as models; but Brundage had no
daughters. In the letters page for Savage Tales
magazine, No.5 (July, 1974), Robert Weinberg, an
authority on pulp magazines, wrote "much as I hate to
discredit a good story, WT cover artist Margaret
Brundage did not have a daughter who posed for her. As
Mrs. Brundage lives in Chicago and I have interviewed
her, this is straight from the artist's mouth."
I also remember reading, somewhere, that it's not true
that HPL used to tear off the covers of his copies of
Weird Tales. I think I might have read that in S.T'
Joshi's biography of Lovecraft but I will have to
check to be sure.
Jeff
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