Lariat Magazine Cover Not sure the artist but I found this: Walker Martin said... For many years I actually owned the original cover painting of this issue. Back in the 1970's a fellow art collector delivered the painting to me in a nowstorm and I only had to pay $100.00 for it. I kept it hanging in the bedroom for about 20 years and finally sold it to Robert Lesser who had a thing for hunchback cretins whipping girls. Now I understand he has given it to the New Britain Museum along with the rest of his pulp cover paintings. 8:42 AM, February 26, 2011