Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Haloed Rider on the Fantastic Mount
A pale haloed figure sits on an immense dark beast with wide staring eyes and an elongated face. Fine white lines trace the mount against a black sky dotted with radiant stars. Smith turns the rider’s apparent stillness into an uneasy contrast with the creature’s distorted body.
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Wallace Smith. "The Haloed Rider on the Fantastic Mount" [editorial title]. In Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath, Ben Hecht; drawings by Wallace Smith. 1922 supplied edition, 1922, Covici-McGee. Source scan leaf 49. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0269-0041
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Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious OathBen Hecht; drawings by Wallace Smith1922More from this book
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Wallace Smith. The Haloed Rider on the Fantastic Mount. Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath. Scan leaf 49. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0269-0041