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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
Thank you for the information.
I absolutely loved (and still love) their work.
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I was in awe of them from the first time I saw their work.
Decades back, a guy I knew who wanted to become an artist's agent talked to the Dillons about representing them. He saw a strong market for their original paintings. He said they had a closet full of paintings done for clients, and had no idea there was a market for them. My jaw dropped, because I'd have considered trading a body part for a Dillon original.
But Leo and Diane were commercial artists, working for reproduction, and selling the rights to
reproduce their work. There was an enormous gulf between commercial artists and fine artists, who
did sell the original. That they were not aware there was a market for their originals was not an enormous surprise.
I've been involved for decades in helping to run literary SF conventions, and one fixture at such things is an Art Show where illustrators
can sell the original art for stuff they were commissioned to do, and I've met an assortment of prominent artists in the genre that way.
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Dennis