Jon Arfstrom

Jon Arfstrom
Born
John Douglas Arfstrom

(1928-11-11)11 November 1928
Superior, Wisconsin
Died2 December 2015(2015-12-02) (aged 87)
Anoka, Minnesota
NationalityAmerican
Known forCover art, fantasy art, surrealism, watercolor, portraiture
AwardsBram Stoker Award, 1994
WebsiteJon Arfstrom Collection at the Anoka Historical Society

Jon Arfstrom (November 11, 1928 – December 2, 2015) was an American artist of imaginative realism known for his fantastical works in the fantasy and horror genres, active both in the late pulp fiction era of the 1950s, with his Weird Tales cover art and interior illustration work, and then again in science fiction publishing in the 1980s, for his mature cover work, for which he received a Bram Stoker Award in 1994.[1]

An accomplished watercolorist, Arfstrom combined his public life as a commercial artist, with its focus on Americana, with a private, surreal, imaginative world, expressed in his many notebooks and journals.[2]

  1. ^ Abbe, Mary (8 Dec 2015). "Obituary: From watercolors to Weird Tales, illustrator Jon Arfstrom did it all". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  2. ^ "Jon Arfstrom". Anoka County Historical Society. Retrieved 2022-05-24.