{"id":3300,"date":"2015-10-26T09:49:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T09:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2015-10-26T18:51:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:51:01","slug":"derek-stowe-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2015\/10\/26\/derek-stowe-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Stowe Artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Having been in Norfolk for a few days means I&#8217;ve slipped behind with todays blog so here is a quick stop gap, back to normal(?) next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Quite a while ago I spotted a piece of original artwork which I recognised but it was credited incorrectly. It was supposedly by David Stowe, landscape artist and purported to be a S\/F video cover from the 1980&#8217;s. In fact it was by PAN book cover artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2014%20Large\/Stowe\/DSBiography.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Derek Stowe<\/span> <\/a>and it was the front cover of issue 88 of &#8216;Understanding Science&#8217; from 1962. As the price was reasonable I bought it, emailed Derek about it and he was amazed as he thought all the artwork was held in captivity by publishers Sampson Low.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3300 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2015\/10\/26\/derek-stowe-artwork\/unnamed8fuhugx4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamed8FUHUGX4-235x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamed8FUHUGX4-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamed8FUHUGX4.jpg 647w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2015\/10\/26\/derek-stowe-artwork\/unnamedwwhedig6\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamedWWHEDIG6-239x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamedWWHEDIG6-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamedWWHEDIG6.jpg 657w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As a glutton for punishment I have started to scan in all 144 front covers from &#8216;Understanding Science&#8217; which I picked up at a very cheap price but then had to pay over\u00a0three times what I paid for them for carriage! I was surprised to see they were the rarer first printings and all in binders which is why it will take time to scan, they don&#8217;t want to come out willingly.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been in Norfolk for a few days means I&#8217;ve slipped behind with todays blog so here is a quick stop gap, back to normal(?) next week. Quite a while ago I spotted a piece of original artwork which I recognised but it was credited incorrectly. It was supposedly by David Stowe, landscape artist and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}