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Romance cover art is the last great holdout for paperback art.   While most cover art waned, romance art thrived during  the 1980s and 1990s.  By the end of the 1990s even Romance art had been replaced by photographs or computer generated art    Elaine Duillo originated Romance art as we know it today.  Crouse produced 900 paperback covers of all types before his untimely death.   Franco is currently one of last great romance artists.

Franco_ParadiseDaysParadiseNights_20x16.jpg (10937 bytes) Franco

Paradise Days, Paradise Nights

Acrylic on board - 20x16

Franco_DancysWoman_20x12.jpg (10937 bytes) Franco

Dancy's Woman -  Pageant Books -  1989 - nothing had prepared Lauren for the power of his searing gaze, for the heat of his touch

Acrylic on board - 20x12

Franco_Sunset_20x14.jpg (287090 bytes) Franco

Sunset Romance

Acrylic on board - 20x14

Franco_GypsyFromCadiz_28x18.jpg (294263 bytes) Franco

Gypsy From Cadiz 

Acrylic on board - 26x18

JohnsonK_UnderTVoodooMoon_34x21.jpg (26791 bytes) Kevin E Johnson

Under the Voodoo Moon - Silhouette Desire - 1994

Oil on board - 34x21

JohnsonK_MoonlightDream_35x22.jpg (19979 bytes) Kevin E Johnson

Moonlight Dream - Silhouette Desire - 1993

Oil on board - 35x22

GinsbergMax_romance_32x22.jpg (45867 bytes) Max Ginsburg

Crystal Rapture

Oil on canvas on board - 32x22

Duillo_SwanRoad_92_17x20_4200.jpg (206279 bytes) Elaine Duillo

Swan Road - Warner Books - 1992 - Fabio as a Viking warrior - "this woman I claim as my own, and mine alone! I will slay the man who dares to lay a hand on her!"

Acrylic on board - 18x20

ByLoveBetrayed_10x10b.jpg (92043 bytes) Theft Of A Heart

Gouache on board - 10x10

TheftOfAHeart_10x10b .jpg (136183 bytes) By Love Betrayed

Gouache on board - 10x10

ThreeGirlsHitTown_15x11.jpg (29352 bytes) Three Girls Hit Town - British romance - 1960s

Gouache on board - 15x11

Crouse_Bewitched_84_18x15a.jpg (226661 bytes) Danny Crouse

Bewitched - 1984 - his dark eyebrows arched wickedly as one of his hands moved threateningly down to  the curve of her bottom

Oil on board - 18x15

Crouse_LoveThyNeighbor_28x18.jpg (280242 bytes) Danny Crouse

Love Thy Neighbor - 1985 - woman doctor takes care of patients at the office and at home

Oil on board - 28x21