Clark Ashton Smith's Paintings and Drawings

• Evening
  Watercolour and gold ink Landscape with several types of trees, bushes and flowers
• Apparitions from the Vault
  Different coloured crayons Phantoms of diverse form massing together 4" x 5"
• The Inquisitor
  Watercolour and pencil Stern Monkish character Dated 1920
• For Keats' "Lamia"
  Watercolour and pencil Female head on serpentine body Based on the poem by John Keats
• Outward
  Watercolour on black sateen Japanesque scene of exotic trees, a river and distant mountains
• Yellow Twilight
  Watercolour on fabric Aspen-like trees against a yellow sky
• Baudlarie's Tomb
  Watercolour Tomb surrounded by leprous vegetation Originally titled "Garden od the Queen Sheba" and dated 1918
• Exotic Perfume
  Watercolour of brilliant, jungle-like trees
• The Estuary
  Watercolour scene of lake, sky and tall thin trees 1927
• The Martian
  Watercolour head of grotesque, multi-tenticled creature against landscape Dated 1922
• Avalzant
  Crayon Of goateed and goatlike humanoid
• Racornee
  Crayon Tree with heads for fruit, between a dragon and a winged being
• The Basilsk
  Watercolour of snakelike creature and exotic vegetation on black background
• Forbidden Barrier
  Crayon Man on horse back confronted by apparition of a strange head Done for "Weird Tales"
• Temple of the Titans
  Watercolour From Smith's poem "The Hashish Eater"
• Proserpine
  Pen and Ink The daughter of Demeter, from Greek mythology
• The Pass
  Oils Snow-covered pass, with Van Gogh-like mountains 10½" x 13½"
• Outland Hills
  Watercolour and coloured inks on black fabric Night scene of hillside and strange trees 11½" x 15½"
• Landscape on White Satin
  Coloured inks Scene of brilliantly coloured trees and plants, and distant mountains 8½" x 10"
• Earth Dragon
  
• Mountain Landscape
  Watercolour of trees, river and mountains
• The Red Death
  Crayon 13" x 6"
• Hormagor
  Black crayon Head of weird creature 8½" x 6"
• Dionysys
  Full color Greek god of wine and celebration 9" x 6"
• Lucifer
  Full color Dated 1920 11½" x 8½"
• Dorian Grey
  Pencil Two portraits, "before" and "after" from Oscar Wilde novel Each 11" x 8"
• Posedion
  Blue crayon The Greek sea god 9" x 6"
• The Philtre
  Pencil drawing of table held up by the body of a naked woman 9" x 6½"
• Lais
  Ink and crayon portrait of a girl with red hair 7" x 5"
• The Sprit of Opium
  Crayon, Skull-like head 8½" x 4½"
• Pan
  Full color 8½" x 6"
• Pluto
  Full Color Crowned figure of the Greco-Roman god of the underworld 11" x 9"
• The Fool and the King's Favourite
  Pencil Jester and naked girl 8" x 6"
• Sappho
  Wash Portrait of famous Greek poetess 8" x 6"
• The Musician
  Pencil Weird creature playing an instrument 8" x 6"
• Neobule
  Pencil and wash Attractive girl's head 8" x 7"
• Comus
  Wash Head of Greco-Roman god of revelry 8" x 6"
• Faustine
  Pencil Portrait of a girl
• Dorus
  Ink and crayon Portrait of girl with red hair 7" x 5"
• A Combat
  Full color Two weird creatures 9" x 6½"
• A Princess of Faeire
  Full colour Portrait of a girl 11" x 8"
• Bernice
  Pencil And brown crayon portrait of a girl 6" x 4"
• The old Man of the Mountain
  Crayon 9" x 6"
• An Atlantean Venus
  Watercolour portrait of read haired girl 9" x 5"
• Lilith
  Wash Girl's portrait 9" x 6"
• Belial
  Blue ink Head of demon 9" x 5½"
• Salome
  Pencil portrait of long hiared naked girl The biblical dancer who demanded the head of john the Baptist 9" x 5"
• A Dandy from Babylon
  Full color Bearded man 9" x 7"
• Charon
  Pencil and wash Head of the greek mythical boatman who ferried dead souls to Hades 9" x 8"
• Inhabitant of Sithakkaloth
  Orange crayon Head and neck of beaked, grinning creature 9" x 5½"
• Worship:
  8" X 11½" A painting done with coloured inks Depicts a lizard-like creature, with tail warped around a tree, grovelling before a weird green horned creature seated on a pedestal A high mountain scene with dead black sky Huge boulders in the background, golden-coloured, almost luminous and metallic Described by George F Haas
• Hyperborian Landscape
  12" X 15" A watercolour A scene in the high mountains with red willow like trees, fantastic peaks, and white clouds Bears the date 1927 in one corner Described by George F Haas
• Scene in Atlantis
  8½" X 12" Oil Almost entirely done in green oils except for a few red seaweed's A shadowy scene of weird sunken buildings, statuary and marine monsters The central figure is a sundial? Described by George F Haas
• The Sciapods
  11" X 12½" Show-card colours Two nude figures, male and female, of the Sciapods of ancient Greek and also Hindu Mythology They are "upside down" with roots where their hair should be and they shade themselves with their wide leaf like feet The setting is a weird landscape with grotesque and multicoloured trees and shrubs Described by George F Haas
• Untitled
  2" X 3½" 1918 A tiny drawing done with purple ink on drawing paper A weird monster with a long neck and a hungry grin On the back of the drawing is the date 1918 Klarkash-Ton had sent this to George Sterling who returned it Described by George F Haas
• Gryphon Gazing On the Gulf
  4½" X 8¾" 1923 A pen-and-ink drawing Illustrateing Lovecraft's "Lurking Fear" in Home Brew in 1923 Depicts a gryphon with outspread wings gazing in to a deep gulf with lightning striking from a huge black cloud This is one of a set done by Klarkash-Ton and is one of the drawings not used Lovecraft himself saw this drawing and likes it In a letter to Klarkash-ton of March 25, 1923, he said: "And the 'Lurking Fear' illustration! I have already told you how the gryphon gazing on the gulf impressed me" Described by George F Haas
• Book Illustrations: From the crypts of memory; a poem in prose
• Tsathoggua
• Illustration for "The Colossus of Ylourgne", in Weird Tales, June 1934; reprinted in The Magazine of Horror #25, January 1969

Last Modified: 19 September 2006
Date Added: 1 December 1997
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