COUNTER: 8945 hits
**NEWEST** Additions:
GUIDEPOSTS February 1999
September 1999
Two possible very early covers / late 1950’s? / Unverified
December 1981 wrap-around cover!
BELOW: A possible 1963 Christmas Card (unverified)
December 1983 (re-used in Dec ’95)
*(And there are 17 + 1 miscl. illustrations added to the bottom of this page.)
July 1995
December 1997 – (two)
September 1997
March 1998
November 1997
December 1999
(maybe the final McGinnis GUIDEPOSTS illustration?) — it’s at the bottom of this webpage!
Shopkeeper & Wife / Date Unknown (early ’60s?)….
Robert McGinnis / GUIDEPOSTS Art
Robert McGinnis is widely known for his murder mystery/thriller pocketbook covers, but he has also done around 100 illustrations for GUIDEPOSTS magazine — seeing that I could not find a webpage that already posted these paintings (except for the few that are on Mr. McGinnis’ own webpage), I thought I would post several of them here.
About 15 GUIDEPOSTS paintings were printed in the 2 McGinnis art books — but this webpage features lots more of them!
Number of Paintings: *97*!
Robert McGinnis did art for GUIDEPOSTS from 1957 until 1999.
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December 1965
The earliest one I’ve located — but it is unsigned & un-credited…. McGinnis?
December 1966
February 1969
August 1969
April 1971
Two illustrations / Both unsigned & un-credited…. McGinnis?
August 1971
Unsigned & un-credited…. McGinnis?
November 1971
Unsigned & un-credited…. McGinnis?
January 1972
Unsigned & un-credited…. McGinnis?
February 1972
Unsigned & un-credited…. McGinnis?
April 1972
Unsigned & un-credited…. McGinnis?
June 1972
October 1972
January 1973
July 1973
September 1973
August 1974
May 1975
August 1975
November 1975
December 1975
July 1976
June 1986
(The dates are in no particular order from here on…)
January 1983
July 1984
December 1984
December 1995
February 1986
September 1992
November 1979
March 1980
December 1990
February 1995
Unfinished/Unpublished Mystery Image:
June 1994
April 1993
July 1983
February 1987
July 1998
March 1978
June 1997
February 1992
February 1977
September 1977
August 1998
“There’s one that is probably the best painting I ever made… It’s a bunch of cats in a barn… I stand in front of it, and I can’t believe I did it. I can always find fault, and failure, and something wrong with my paintings. I look at that and I can’t find one stroke wrong anywhere to improve it or change it. It’s as close to Andrew Wyeth as I’ll ever get.” -The Art of ROBERT McGINNIS, page 130.
December 1998
March 1981
November 1988
June 1991
Mr. McGinnis makes a rare appearance in this painting as a man looking at his watch…
June 1985
September 1996
October 1981
April 1982
February 1989
January 1977 –(a reprint of Dec 1966)
July 1993
March 1994
November 1995
May 1988
January 1990
January 1988
July 1981 _&_ reprinted April 1998
July 1987
August 1989
December 1987
January 1987
Unsigned & un-credited…. McGinnis?
February 1996
March 1997
Issue Unknown
June 1996
A re-doing of the above figure:
June 1995
December 1994
…and it was a Guideposts Christmas Card
1997 / Bob’s Father
February 1997
May 1992
Two from 1998
May 1977
April 1979
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October 1990
The Last McGinnis???
December 1999
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(MORE TO COME — if I can find them!)
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17 OTHERS RARELY SEEN
Good Housekeeping 1970’s sketch:
Argosy 1961
Argosy 1965 — A McGinnis bowling illustration!
Good Housekeeping 1961
Good Housekeeping 1973
Good Housekeeping 1971
Good Housekeeping (year unknown)
Good Housekeeping 1969
Good Housekeeping (year unknown)
Good Housekeeping 1964
Good Housekeeping (year unknown)
Six Gothic Tales / Readers Digest
