Roy Gerald Krenkel (July 11, 1918 – February 24, 1983[1]), who often signed his work RGK, was an American illustrator who specialized in fantasy and historical drawings and paintings for books, magazines and comic books.
Influences and study
Krenkel was born July 11, 1918.[2] His artwork revealed the strong influence of artist Norman Lindsay, in addition to Franklin Booth, Joseph Clement Coll and J. Allen St. John. In 1939, he was attending Cooper Union's Art School.[3] Before World War II he studied with George Bridgman at the Art Students League of New York. During the War he served as a Private in the U.S. Army in the Philippines. His enlistment papers of January 23, 1942, record him as living in Queens, as having graduated from high school, and as single, without dependents, employed as an actor.[4]