Kalan’s website includes many of these illustrations, all done in oil on boards sized roughly 18 x 24, and produced at the rate of one or two per month. During the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s he produced romance novel cover art for Harlequin Enterprises. His early clients included Pyramid Books and Avon Publishers, and he was best known for his sweaty “bodice-ripper” book covers. He studied at the Institute of Art in Chicago, where he soon after got his start as Al Buell‘s apprentice. Frank Kalan (1922–2003) was one of Harlequin’s prolific cover artists. Originally founded in 1949 in Winnipeg, Canada, as a paperback reprint house, in 1953 it began publishing medical romances and by 1984 had become primarily known for romance books for women. Harlequin is one of the world’s most famous book publishers.
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