Michael Whelan "Legends: The Gunslinger" Signed Limited Edition No. 61 of 500 w/COA [Very Fine]

Personally signed by Michael Whelan

LEGENDS: THE GUNSLINGER. Signed Limited Edition Number 61 of 500.

Glass Onion Graphics 2003. Michael Whelan "Legends: The Gunslinger" Signed Limited Edition Offset Lithograph. 500 Prints, Hand-signed in Pencil in White Border, with Certificate of Authenticity. Image Size: 30" x 20". Official Art Print, signed & numbered by the artist Michael Whelan. Overall 24" x 35". 

After Michael Whelan illustrated the first book in the Dark Tower series, his artwork became synonymous with the story.

The author doesn’t describe the tower until the last book, but many of the main characters experience dream visions of the object of their quest throughout the saga. Michael offers a vision of his own for the frontispiece of LEGENDS, an anthology of prequels by best-selling authors published in 1999, which included a Dark Tower story by Stephen King.

A special note: Michael substantially repainted his original specifically for our limited edition print, so it is even better than the image that appeared in the book.

Originally created for the frontispiece of LEGENDS, an anthology of prequels by best-selling authors published in 1999, which included a story by Stephen King, and then substantially repainted for the Limited Edition print.

Michael Whelan

Michael Whelan (born 29 June 1950) is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years, he worked as an illustrator, specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Since the mid-1990s, he has pursued a fine art career, selling non-commissioned paintings through galleries in the United States and through his website.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Whelan in June 2009, the first living artist so honored. According to his Hall of Fame.

Michael Whelan is one of the most important contemporary science fiction and fantasy artists, and certainly the most popular. His work was a dominant force in the transition of genre book covers away from the surrealism introduced in the 1950s and 1960s back to realism.

His paintings have appeared on the covers of more than 350 books and magazines, including many Stephen King novels, most of the Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, the Del Rey edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars series, Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star series, the Del Rey editions of H. P. Lovecraft's short story collections, the Grand Master edition of Ray Bradbury's fix-up novel The Martian Chronicles, DAW editions of Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné books, numerous DAW editions of C. J. Cherryh's work, many of Robert A. Heinlein's novels including Friday and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the Ace editions of H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy novels, and Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Otherland, and Shadowmarch series and Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive. Whelan provided covers and interior illustrations for Stephen King's The Gunslinger and The Dark Tower, the first and last of his Dark Tower books.

Cover art by Michael Whelan has graced many music record albums including Demolition Hammer's Epidemic of Violence, The Jacksons' Victory; Sepultura's Beneath the Remains, Arise, Chaos A.D. and Roots; Soulfly's Dark Ages; Obituary's Cause of Death; and every album by the Elric-influenced metal band Cirith Ungol. He painted original works for the covers of Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell and The Very Best of Meat Loaf albums and several of his older paintings illustrate the liner notes of the former. In 2009, he painted the cover art for thrash metal band Evile's album Infected Nations.