Tolkien Visual Collecting Guide: Artist

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Tuesday 15 February 2022

Tolkien Musing - Rodney Matthews

This is a look at the Tolkien Collectables featuring the art of artist Rodney Matthews, it is not a look at their art in general.

Matthews is not a specialist Tolkien artist and has done lots of other Fantasy paintings and illustrations.

Here are some links about the artist in general:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Matthews

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?26162

Book Covers

The Tolkien and Middle-Earth Handbook

Colin Duriez

1992

A Guide to Middle-Earth

Colin Duriez

Art Prints

A View Over Isengard

Posters

Rivendell

1986

Dwarves of Belegost

Lord of the Rings

2000

24x34”

A Time For Revenge

1980

84x47cm

Treebeard

1993

24x36”

Calendars

Storybook Collection

1990

Several Tolkien images

Rodney Matthews Calendar

1996

Cover and 3 Tolkien images

Rodney Matthews Calendar

2003

5 Tolkien image

Jigsaw Puzzles

Fantasy series

Falcon

Series has 4 puzzles 1 features a Tolkien image

Record Cover

Lord of the Rings - Bo Hansson

https://www.discogs.com/release/1098162-Bo-Hansson-Music-Inspired-By-Lord-Of-The-Rings

Monday 7 February 2022

Tolkien Musing - Michael Kaluta

This is a look at the Tolkien Collectables featuring the art of artist Michael Kaluta, it is not a look at their art in general.

Kaluta is not a specialist Tolkien artist and has done lots of other Fantasy paintings and Illustrations, his main Tolkien contribution is the 1994 Tolkien Calendar.

Here are some links about the artist in general:

http://www.tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Category:Images_by_Michael_Kaluta

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2183

Calendars

1994

All images

Trading Cards

Series 1

https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/101080

71 - King Elessar and Arwen Evenstar

73 - Eowyn and the Witch-King of Angmar

74 - The Black Gate is Closed

75 - Legolas Draws the Bow of Galadriel

76 - Elrond Recalls the Host of Gilgalad

77 - The Entmoot

78 - Gandalf Arrives in Hobbiton

79 - The King Recrowned

80 - Eowyn Before the Gates of Meduseld

81 - Meriadoc the Magnificent

86 - Theoden Espies the Serpent Banner

Series 2

https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/125021/1995-FPG-Michael-Kaluta-Series-2

78 - Bilbo’s Party

Signed Sheet

Signed uncut sheet

Limited

With Tolkien cover image (no Tolkien cards)

Sunday 6 February 2022

Tolkien Musing - Darrell Sweet

This is a look at the Tolkien Collectables featuring the art of artist Darrell K. Sweet, it is not a look at their art in general.

Artist Darrell K. Sweet should not to be confused with the drummer from rock group Nazareth.

Sweet is not a specialist Tolkien artist and has done lots of other Fantasy paintings and Illustrations, however he did produce some significant Tolkien art in the 1980s which featured on book covers of US releases of Tolkien books and also did the 1982 Tolkien Calendar.

Here are some links about the artist in general:

http://www.tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Category:Images_by_Darrell_Sweet

https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Darrell_Sweet

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1353

Books

Beyond Fantasy
Book of Sweet art, features many Tolkien pictures.