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| Title | Seventh World Fantasy Convention, Program Book |
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| Date | October 30, 1981 - November 1, 1981 |
| Description | Program book for the Seventh World Fantasy Convention. |
| Donor | Leiber, Fritz; Leiber, Justin |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | ID 1984-003, Box 57, Folder 41 |
| ArchivesSpace URI | /repositories/2/archival_objects/5313 |
| Original Collection | Fritz Leiber Papers |
| Digital Collection | Fritz Leiber Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention Flyers & Programs |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/1984_003 |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | Rights Undetermined |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Page 45 |
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| File Name | uhlib_1984_003_b057_f041_151_046.jpg |
| Transcript | Lee Bpown coye Lee Brown Coye, 74, a well known fantasy artist, died in a hospital in Hamilton, New York on September 5, 1981. Coye was born in Syracuse, New York on July 24, 1907. He was a medical illustrator and first illustrated his own Gothic fantasy, "The Seventh Ogre/' in 1932. Coye first came to the attention of fantasy fans in 1944 when he illustrated a series of three horror anthologies (Sleep No More, Who Knocks? & The Night Side) edited by August Derleth for Farrar & Rinehart. His distinctively grotesque style quickly made him the best known artist to illustrate for Weird Tales during that magazine's final decade. Coye returned to the field in the early 1960s with work for Fantastic and for Arkham House, and experienced a strong revival in the 1970s through his illustrations for Carcosa Press and for Whispers. He twice won the World Fantasy Award for best artist. On January 1,1977, Coye suffered a massive stroke, and had remained hospitalized ever since. In recent years he was able to make a partial recovery from his paralysis and had begun to draw again on a limited basis. At the time of his death he was at work on a third book for Carcosa. Coye's work seemed to have included everything: murals, oil paintings, wood sculpture, silverwork, three-dimensional models, medical illustration, watercolor, jewelry, woodcuts, scratchboard drawings. He had exhibitions at the Whitney and the Metropolitan, and a large collection of his art is held by the State University of New York at Morrisville. Fantasy fans will remember him best for his marvelously gruesome drawings, bizarrely distorted and imbued with a touch of sardonic humor. —Karl Edward Wagner in Locus, October 1981 46 |