03 Works, Robert McGinnis' interpretations of Richard Scott Prather's novels Adrienne, Renee and Rose Garland, with Footnotes #83

Robert McGinnisis

Detail; Cover art from the paperback novel "Adrienne" by Richard S. Prather

Digital print on stretched canvas

29 x 14 x 1 in

Private collection

Robert McGinnisis

Cover art from the paperback novel "Adrienne" by Richard S. Prather

Digital print on stretched canvas

29 x 14 x 1 in

Private collection

Robert McGinnisis

Cover art from the paperback novel "Renee" by Richard S. Prather

Digital print on stretched canvas

22 x 30 x 1 in

Private collection

Robert E. McGinnis

Rose Garland, c. 2000

Mixed media on board

19 1/2 x 15 5/8 inches 

Private collection

Richard Scott Prather (September 9, 1921 – February 14, 2007) was an American mystery novelist, best known for creating the "Shell Scott" series. He also wrote under the pseudonyms David Knight and Douglas Ring.

Prather was born in Santa Ana, California. He served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II, from 1942 through the end of the war, in 1945. That year he began working as a civilian chief clerk of surplus property at March Air Force Base in Riverside, California. He left that job to become a full-time writer in 1949. The first Shell Scott mystery, Case of the Vanishing Beauty, was published in 1950. It would be the start of a long series that numbered more than three dozen titles featuring the Shell Scott character.

At Prather's death in 2007, he had completed but not published his last Shell Scott Mystery. His final novel, The Death Gods, was published October 2011, in print and ebook formats by Pendleton Artists, with permission of the Richard S. Prather Estate and Linda Pendleton. More on Richard Scott Prather

Robert Edward McGinnis (born February 3, 1926) is an American artist and illustrator. McGinnis is known for his illustrations of more than 1,200 paperback book covers, and over 40 movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffany's (his first film poster assignment) Barbarella, and several James Bond and Matt Helm films

McGinnis became an apprentice at Walt Disney Studios, then studied fine art at Ohio State University. After wartime service in the Merchant Marine he entered advertising and a chance meeting with Mitchell Hooks in 1958 led him to be introduced to Dell Publishing began a career drawing a variety of paperback covers for books written by such authors as Donald Westlake (writing as Richard Stark), Edward S. Aarons, Erle Stanley Gardner, Richard S. Prather, and the Michael Shayne and Carter Brown series.

McGinnis later did artwork for Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's Home Companion, Good Housekeeping, TIME, Argosy, Guideposts, and The Saturday Evening Post.

McGinnis's attention to detail was such that when he was assigned to do the artwork for Arabesque he requested Sophia Loren's tiger stripe dress be sent for him for a model to wear so he could get the right appearance.

In 1985 McGinnis was awarded the title of "Romantic Artist of the Year" by Romantic Times magazine for his many romance novel paperback covers.

He is a member of the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. McGinnis is the subject of a documentary film, Robert McGinnis: Painting the Last Rose of Summer, by Paul Jilbert. More on Robert Edward McGinnis

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