biography of Robert MCCALL (1919-2010)

Birth place: Columbus, OH

Addresses: NYC; Chappaqua, NY

Profession: Painter, designer, commercial artist, illustrator

Studied: Columbus Sch. FA; AIC

Exhibited: Westchester AA, 1954-55; NGA; AWCS, 1965. Awards: scholarship, Columbus Sch. FA.

Member: SI; Aviation Writers Assn.

Work: U.S. Air Force Hist. Coll., Pentagon, Wash., DC (made during tour of Arctic bases).

Comments: Specialty: aviation subjects. McCall was an Army Air Corps instructor in WWII. Illustrator, covers, Popular Science magazine; advertising illus., for leading publications including Life, Time, Saturday Evening Post, (also story illus.); series of paintings for Life magazine on "Space Vehicles of the Future," 1961; series of full color paintings for General Electric Co., 1961, of "Record Breaking Aircraft." Series of paintings illus. "The Day of Infamy," for Life magazine, also for Life, cover and paintings for special issue on "Space," Sept., 1964; commissioned by NASA, to document in paintings, major space events; U.S. Air Force painting assignment 1957 and 1964 (Greece and Turkey), to document the world-wide activities of the Air Force. Campaigns for Ford, Buick, Goodyear, Sperry, Douglas Aircraft, United Aircraft and others.

Sources: WW66; P&H Samuels, 312-13.

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