death_date birth_place awards nationality name field birth_date article_title birth_name born
18 january 1971 rochester , new york hugo retro hugo awarded in 1996 -rrb- ; hugo award for award best interior illustrator , 1953 ; science fiction hall of for fame , 2012 best professional artist , 1945 -lrb- american virgil finlay illustration 23 july 1914 virgil finlay
 virgil warden finlay london england
virgil finlay

virgil finlay -lrb- july 23 , 1914 -- january 18 , 1971 -rrb- was an american pulp fantasy , science fiction and horror illustrator .
he has been called `` part of the pulp magazine history ... one of the foremost contributors of original and imaginative art work for the most memorable science fiction and fantasy publications of our time . ''
while he worked in a range of media , from gouache to oils , finlay specialized in , and became famous for , detailed pen-and-ink drawings accomplished with abundant stippling , cross-hatching , and scratchboard techniques .
despite the very labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of his specialty , finlay created more than 2600 works of graphic art in his 35-year career .
the science fiction hall of fame inducted finlay in 2012 .
