Robert McCall (artist)

Robert T. McCall
Robert McCall with commemorative stamps (1971)
Born(1919-12-23)December 23, 1919
Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
DiedFebruary 26, 2010(2010-02-26) (aged 90)
Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
Known forPainting, illustrations
Websitehttp://www.mccallstudios.com

Robert Theodore McCall (December 23, 1919 – February 26, 2010) was an American artist, best known for his space art works.

Work

McCall was an illustrator for Life magazine in the 1960s,[1] created promotional artwork for Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)[2] and Richard Fleischer's production Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)[3] and worked as an artist for NASA, documenting the history of the Space Race. McCall was also production illustrator on Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) [4][5] and Walt Disney's The Black Hole (1979).[6] The character Commander William Riker expressed admiration for the work of "Bob McCall" in one episode of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.[citation needed]

McCall's work can be found on U.S. postage stamps, and also NASA mission patches such as for Apollo 17.[7][8]

He has created murals for the walls of the National Air and Space Museum, the National Gallery of Art, The Pentagon, Epcot, and Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. McCall was also commissioned by The Walt Disney Company to do a painting called "The Prologue and The Promise" for the Epcot attraction, Horizons in 1983. Guests could see the mural at the end of the attraction as they exited.[9][10]

McCall appeared as an imposter for a U.S. Air Force pilot on the June 24, 1963 episode of To Tell the Truth. He received one of the four possible votes from the panel.[11]

McCall died in 2010 of heart failure in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Books

  • Our World in Space, 1974, text by Isaac Asimov, illustrations by Robert McCall
  • The Art of Robert McCall: A Celebration of our Future in Space, Bantam Books, 1992, introduction by Ray Bradbury ISBN 0-553-07355-9
  • Vision of the Future: The Art of Robert McCall, text by Ben Bova, illustrations by Robert McCall.

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  • Apollo Soyuz Program, 1974
    Apollo Soyuz Program, 1974
  • Apollo 8 Coming Home, 1971
    Apollo 8 Coming Home, 1971
  • Teague Auditorium Lobby mural
    Teague Auditorium Lobby mural
  • U.S. stamp design, Apollo & Soyuz After Docking, 1975
    U.S. stamp design, Apollo & Soyuz After Docking, 1975

See also

Similar artists

References

  1. ^ "100 Years Ago: Birth of Space Artist Robert McCall - NASA". 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  2. ^ "Robert McCall Collection". The University of Arizona Museum of Art and Archive of Visual Arts. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  3. ^ "» Tora!, Tora!, Tora!". www.mccallstudios.com. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  4. ^ "Robert T. McCall bio, photos, oral history | AZ Historymaker". www.historicalleague.org. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  5. ^ "» Star Trek". www.mccallstudios.com. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  6. ^ "» The Black Hole". www.mccallstudios.com. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  7. ^ "Mission Insignias".
  8. ^ Gene Kranz (2000). Failure is not an option. Simon & Schuster. p. 376. ISBN 0-7432-0079-9.
  9. ^ "» the Prologue and the Promise".
  10. ^ "A Tour of the Hidden Epcot Art Gallery: The American Adventure - Part Two". Disney Parks Blog. 2019-02-22. Archived from the original on April 3, 2019. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  11. ^ "To Tell the Truth". CBS. 19 August 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
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