artists
who have illustrated the Old solar system

[This page, begun on 9th June 2026, will take a while to cover much of the field!

In particular, references to the great Frank R Paul will be sketchy to start with - you will find many of his pictures on the site which aren't mentioned on this page; ramble around among "what to see on..." and you'll see what I mean.

Amazing Stories, August 1927, illustration by Frank R Paul for "The War of the Worlds"

Alan Aldridge - for his cover for Alfred Bester's Tiger! Tiger! see the page on
Space Sargassoes, Derelicts and Clumps.

Ray Bailey - for Tom Corbett, Space Cadet see
Radioactive pyramid inside the Moon and
Danger from a dart-bush on Venus.

Chesley Bonestell - see Mimas.
And see the Mars page for his Martian Canal picture.

Candice Broersma - see the Mars page for her depiction of the scene in C S Lewis'
Out of the Silent Planet in which Ransom is lost in the forest
among the giraffe-like creatures.

David Darling - see the Jupiter page for balloon-like creatures swirling about in the
Jovian atmosphere.

Elliott Dold Jr. - for an illustration from Weinbaum's Planet of Doubt see
Giant chain-creatures on Uranus.

Bob Eggleton - for Poul Anderson's Call Me Joe see the Jupiter page.
For the cover art for Saturn Rukh by Robert L Forward, see the Saturn
page.

Dean Ellis - for A Fall of Moondust cover see the Moon page.

Kenneth S Fagg - for Lava Falls on Mercury see Explorers facing the heat on Mercury.

Chris Foss - for his cover for Spacehounds of IPC see the Jupiter page.

Frank Kelly Freas - for the Astounding cover illustration of Poul Anderson's Call Me Joe
see the Jupiter page.
For illustration of H Beam Piper's Omnilingual see Alien Scripts.

Mark Garlick - for Primordial Moon see the Moon page.

Robert Gibson - for Uranian City see the Cities page.

Frank Hampson - for Voyage to Venus see Mekonta, capital of Northern Venus.
For Operation Saturn see Dan Dare brought to the capital of Titan and
Dan Dare is hunted on Phoebe.
For The Red Moon Mystery see Exploring a ruined palace on Mars.
For Marooned on Mercury see
Mercurians armoured against Dayside heat.

David A Hardy - for his Plutonian landscape see Allied artwork
(and I have also put the picture on the Pluto page).

Mel Hunter - For a scene on desert Venus see the Venus page.

Harold Jones - illustrated Prisoners of Saturn. See also Mea culpa.

Josh Kirby - for his illustration of John Carter in the pits of Horz, on the cover of the 1967
Four Square Books edition of Llana of Gathol, see the page on
Primordial Worlds.
For his illustration of Hadron of Hastor, on the cover of the 1966 Four Square
Books edition of Burroughs' A Fighting Man of Mars,
see the home page.
For his picture of Carson duelling with Muso, on the cover of Carson of Venus,
see Amtor.

Rodney Matthews - For the "planetary coaster" illustration for Clark Ashton Smith's tale
The Immeasurable Horror, see the Venus page.

Ron Miller - 8 May 1947 -
See the Far Future page for his painting of a Mayan stele reeling as Earth
cooks under a red giant Sun.

Leo Morey - For the cover of the April 1932 Amazing Stories, illustrating The Lost Machine
by John B Harris [=John Wyndham], see the Earth page.
For his illustration of Aladra Septama's Dragons of Space see
Creatures of the Void.

Frank R Paul - 18 April 1884 - 29 June 1963.
For Life on Callisto (1940) see
Amid a crowd of four-armed folk on Callisto.
For Life on Mercury see the Mercury page.
For his illustration to Cummings' The Flame Breathers
see the Vulcan page.
See the Venus page for A City on Venus.
See the Tales Unwritten page regarding a suggestion
for a volume of The Paul Narratives.
See the Mars page for A City on Mars and The Man From Mars.
See the Asteroids page for his illustration to Master of the Asteroid by
Clark Ashton Smith.
See the Jupiter page for Life on Jupiter and A City on Jupiter.
See the Saturn page for City on Saturn and Life on Saturn.
See the Uranus page for Life on Uranus.
See the Neptune page for A City on Neptune and for the
cover of Amazing Stories Quarterly, Summer 1930, illustrating
Juve's Monsters of Neptune.
See the Pluto page for A City on Pluto and Life on Pluto.
See the Comets page for the cover illustrating
Hamilton's The Comet Doom.
The Stellar Neighbourhood page shows scenes on worlds of
Antares, Betelgeuse and Rigel.

Bruce Pennington - for the Panther Books covers for Clark Ashton Smith's Lost Worlds
see the Saturn page.

Hugh Rankin - 2 July 1879 - 3 January 1956.
Note: some of my online research tells me he did the "flesh creatures"
illustration for Edmond Hamilton's The Hidden World - see the
page on Hollow Worlds. But other research contradicts this.
I wish I could be sure who did that picture.

Lucien Rudaux - See the illustration on the Venus page, of the clouds seen through the
port of a spaceship.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - for one of his illustrations for Le Petit Prince see the Asteroids
page.

Alex Schomburg - 10 May 1905 - 7 April 1998.
For his illustration for Brackett's The Last Days of Shandakor see the
Cities page.

Curtis Charles Senf - 30 July 1873 - 24 April 1949.
For the January 1932 Weird Tales cover illustrating Clark Ashton Smith's
The Monster of the Prophecy, see the Deeds page entry
for October 1931.

James B Settles - for Ether-power Ship of Europa see Power-Rowing on Europa.
For Mica Sailboat of Mercury see Sailing on primordial Mercury.

Topps Space Cards - for Mercury's Amazing Climate see Frying eggs on Mercury.

Wesso: see below, Hans Wessolowski.

Hans Wessolowski - 19 August 1894 - 12 May 1948.
See the Cities page for his Fall 1929 cover of
Amazing Stories Quarterly, illustrating Edmond Hamilton's
The Other Side of the Moon.
For his illustrations of Edmond Hamilton's
The Universe Wreckers see the page on
Decisive Battles of the Old Solar System.
For his illustration of Clark Ashton Smith's
The Hunters From Beyond, see San Francisco.