Typical Flying Saucer Invasion, Painting by Harold Fox

An inverted Ed Wood production, Fox’s Typical Flying Saucer Invasion explores the unremarkably extraordinary things that take place daily in Los Angeles. In this painting, two female Martians in Jane Fonda gear come down to earth with a fleet of flying saucers in their wake. Accompanied by a giant robot, the pair inspires panicked newspaper headlines and fear in the populace. Even the LAPD cower by the spaceship and suits rush around under a building marked Los Angeles Hair Removal. The use of electric blue to outline the space helmets and the retro-futuristic costumes are pure mid-fifties sci-fi serial matinee.

Oil on masonite. Signed by artist. Custom framed.

Artist Harold Fox worked for many decades as a graphic designer before turning his skills to fine art. Combining his interests in sociology, history, and casual observation, Fox paints images of a Los Angeles caught between stark reality and surrealistic fantasy. A former student photographer and filmmaker, his work has been shown at Cal State Long Beach, San Francisco Coast Guard Headquarters, among other places.

Dimensions with frame: 17 1/2 H x 14 1/2 W

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