Joseph Wirt Tillotson

{{Infobox person

| name = Joseph Wirt Tillotson

| image = Joseph Wirt "Robert Fuque" TIllotson.jpg

| other_names = Robert Fuqua

| birth_date = {{birth date|1905|01|30}}

| birth_place = Greenville, Mississippi, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1959|09|01|1905|01|30}}

| resting_place = Greenville, Mississippi, U.S.

| occupation = Pulp artist/illustrator

| spouse = Marian Tillotson

}}

Joseph Wirt Tillotson (January 30, 1905 – September 1, 1959) was an American pulp painter and illustrator who used the name Robert Fuqua in his works.

Biography

Joseph Wirt Tillotson was born January 30, 1905, in Greenville, Mississippi, to parents William Wirt Tillotson and Belle Fuqua Oursler. Between 1938 and 1951, Tillotson painted an estimated 80 covers for the pulp magazine Amazing Stories.{{Cite book|last=Schelly|first=William|title=Otto Binder The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary|publisher=North Atlantic Books|year=2016|location=California|pages=60|language=English}} Between 1949 and the late 1950s, he illustrated stories for Our Bible in Pictures published by David C. Cook.[https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/tillotson_joseph_wirt.htm Lambiek]

He married Marian Tillotson, a sociology professor at the University of Chicago. They had no children. Tillotson died of liver cancer on September 1, 1959.

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