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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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
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In all the posts I've read by you, you have the most wonderful stories about your involvement with SF and SF authors. I would love to read your personal stories.
I wish you would write that book.
I WOULD BUY IT IN A HEARTBEAT.