from Page 114, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, December 2006 Issue

 

ON OUR. COVER: This month another in our series of classic covers- the work of Barry Waldman. Mr. Waldman is a graduate of Pratt Institute, where he later held a teaching position. He has also had two successful careers in commercial art. In the 'fifties he did oil paintings for magazine covers and book-jackets, including the May 1957 EQMM cover copied for this issue. He subsequently founded three art studios that dealt with commercial art and portrait painting. Today he is a full-time easel painter who has had numerous exhibitions in several states. We managed to locate him, but not the original oil painting for this cover, in Georgia, where he currently lives. When we explained that we could not reproduce the cover without the original painting, he kindly offered to repaint it for us from scratch, using the fifty-year-old magazine as his guide. The result is a dead ringer for his 1957 illustration, and one of the best covers, we think, in the classic series.