“I had no idea they were there,” she said. Her work is an interesting cross of fantastical and photo realism (see example below), which brought many fans - including three of her pieces found in one of Saddam Hussein’s homes. In all, she has painted the cover for more than 400 novels, along with various other commissions. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, Larry Niven, Piers Anthony, and Madeleine L’Engle, among others. Rowena, as she usually signed her work, became especially known for her science fiction and fantasy work, painting book covers for Anne McCaffrey, Philip K. If you can find a “perfect” copy of that pulp paperback, its price will probably be north of $750, almost entirely attributed to Morrill’s cover. It worked: she soon was commissioned to paint the cover for Isobel, a 1977 Jane Parkhurst romance. “The ad agency was unbearable,” she said, “so I quit.” Her next idea: call book publishers to see if they needed a cover artist. A painter, Morrill first worked at a New York City ad agency.
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