Weird cover Senf did (and perhaps one of his best works) toward the end of hisġ927 Senf was reading the stories and illustrating them according to theirĬontent, so this last sentiment by Lovecraft was merely a stylistic complaint In fact, a little later in this article, we will look at another truly Necessarily incorrect in his over-all opinion about Senf’s work, Senf “could doĪ truly weird cover, one of his best being for ‘The Bride of Dewer,” and there were a few ‘artist’ Senf has no sense of the fantastic whatever.” While Lovecraft is not Lived, by June of that same year, Lovecraft told Derleth, “.the present Lovecraft declared, “I shall welcome the new cover artist, & can feel sureĪt least that he can’t be any worse than those who have hitherto messed up the In a January 1927 letter to August Derleth, Lovecraft, who was often picky about weirdĪrt (and weird fiction), expressed hope that this new artist might create better cover art than Tales prior to 1927 was average to downright terrible, Senf was a welcomedĮdition to the magazine. By the time he landed the job of cover and interior There are no other details about employmentįor Senf until he becomes a regular artist for Weird Tales.
This venture failed and eventually wasįorced to file bankruptcy in 1903. Eventually Senf opened an art agency called Following his art studies at the Chicago Institute of Art, Senf became aĬommercial artist and lithographer. School and upon graduating high school, he enrolled in the Chicago Institute ofĪrt. His father's occupation was listed only as "workman." C.C. They landed in New York City on June 28 and then ultimately settled in Chicago, Was a boy of eight, the Senf family emigrated to America on the S.S. Charles Senf was born on July 30, 1873, in Rosslau, Prussia.
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