artist BOB PEAK 1927-1992
BORN: |
1927, Denver, Colorado
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EDUCATION: |
Wichita State University 1944-45, 46-49 Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA 1950-52 BPA
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SERVICE: |
United States Navy
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE: |
Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA Art Students League, New York, NY Famous Artists School
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INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES: |
Annual of Advertising Art in Japan 1959 American Artist September 1962 Gezeichnete reportagen aus den USA arbeitem von Robert Peak with English, French, Spanish texts H. Kuh Gebrauch April 1963 Northlight 1964 Car and Driver Magazine: Innocents Abroad/ The Ultimate Ferrari August 1968 Idea Magazine 1970 5/100 Graphic Design Magazine Wichita State University Spring 1972 TWA Ambassador Magazine September 1971 Com Art November 1973 Sports Illustrated 1973 Illustrator's Quarterly 1973 No.1: The Illustrator as an innovator Art Direction Magazine 1974 Art in America July 1975 Art News Summer 1975 Chicago Tribune Magazine October 26,1975 Sports Illustrated December 1975 American Artist May 1977 Northlight May/June 1977 Graphics: New York October 1977 Print: Illustrators Workshop: an original approach to teaching tomorrow's artists November 1977 Art News April 1978 American Artist March 1979 Communication Arts March 1979 Communication Arts cover and article September 1979 American Artist: Bob Peak; images that work February 1982 Communication Arts May/June 1982 Los Angeles Magazine: Hollywood's Real Unsung Heros/Meet Artists Who Make the Posters February 1983 Engineering News Record May 19, 1983 Scottsdale Magazine Fall 1983 The Art Institutes: A Pictorial Journal Fall 1983 The Scottsdale Daily Progress: Artist Licks Stamp Project, January 26, 1984 Communication Arts March/April 1999 Forty Years of Creative Excellence "Pioneers "
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PUBLICATIONS: |
"Famous Artist School" "Illustrators in America 1900-1960's" by Walter Reed "The Great Illustrators" by Walter Reed "This Face You Got" "Famous American Illustrators"
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AWARDS: |
AWARDS FROM THE SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS New York, New York Since 1959 to the present over 100 awards including: HAMILTON KING AWARD 1968 HALL OF FAME 1977 GOLD MEDALS: 1971, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1982 SILVER MEDALS: 1962, 1964,1966, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979
"ARTIST OF THE YEAR 1961" by The Artists Guild of New York "1992 KEY ART LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD" by The Hollywood Reporter
Bob Peak has won over 150 awards from the following organizations: Art Directors Club of New York Art Directors Annual Communications Arts Art Directors Club of Philadelphia Art Directors Club of Chicago Advertising Club of Boston ORAD Art Directors Club of Denver Mead Library of Design Motion Picture Advertising Exhibition The Artist Guild of Delaware Communigraphics Exhibition Printing Industries of Metropolitan New York Inc. Art Directors Club of New Jersey Art Direction Magazine The Hollywood Reporter Advertising Club of New York The Art Directors Club of Tulsa Chicago 76 Communications Collaborative Inc. Artists Guild of Chicago Chicago Book Clinic Chicago Film Council Chicago Society of Communication Arts
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SHOWS: |
Utah State University Wichita State University New York Historical Society: 200 Years of American Illustration Brooklyn Museum: 100 Years of American Illustration The Greenwich Workshop Gallery National Art Museum of Sport Westport Artists Society of Illustrators New York Auto Show 1969 AWIA Show Carson Gallery, Denver, Colorado O'Grady Galleries, Chicago, Illinois: Bicentennial Show 1976, Group Show April 1977, Seven Contemporary Artists February 1979 O'Grady Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona 1983 Smithsonian Institute, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC: Time-Life Exhibition McCulley Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, Texas July 1974, November 1974, December 1983 Rizzoli Gallery, New York, New York: Great Illustrators of Our Time
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ONE MAN SHOWS: |
Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, California Art Students League, New York, New York Famous Artist Schools Society of Illustrators, New York, New York Oklahoma Christian College, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Wichita State University 1972, 1982 Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida O'Grady Galleries, Chicago, Illinois: People, Places and Things April 1978 Academy of Art and Design, Denver, Colorado 1983 The Academy of Art College, San Francisco, California Tokyo Designers Gakuin College, Tokyo, Japan October 1985 The Design School Gallery, Philadelphia, PA July 1986
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PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: |
American Express New York, New York Special Olympics, Washington DC Playboy, Chicago, IL Phillip Morris, New York , New York 20th Century Fox Oklahoma Christian College, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Smithsonian Institute, Portrait Gallery, Washington DC American Museum of Sport, New York, New York Society of Illustrators, New York, New York Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California Southstreet Seaport Museum, New York, New York Wichita State University, Wichita, KS Sports Illustrated Time-Life Inc. Casa Bonita, William Waugh, Dallas, Texas Jack Levy and Associates, Chicago, Illinois Cashco Energy Corporation, E.C. Cashman. Houston, TX Sauvarie, Valeria Douglas, Los Angeles, CA Peter Green Design, Los Angeles, CA Brian Clinton and Associates, Melbourne, Australia TWA Clint Eastwood Audrey Hepburn Sidney Pointier Tony Bennett Lucille Ball Hugh O'Brien Robert Townson - Varese Sarabande Records
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SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS: |
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: On Safari with the Shah of Iran, hunting Ibex, 1964 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: Grand Prix Tour with Jackie Stewart,1967 FORD MOTOR COMPANY: Car Design, 1968-1970 SPECIAL OLYMPICS: 15th anniversary of the Special Olympics. Eunice Kennedy Shriver and the Special Olympic Committee commissioned six paintings on "The Spirit of Sport". The imagery of the paintings was the artist's interpretation of quotations from six famous athletes: Frank Gifford, Chris Evert Lloyd, Joe DiMaggio, Jack Nicklaus, Pele, and Wilt Chamberlain. 1982-1983 UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE: The largest commission ever given to an individual artist: designed 30 stamps for the 1984 Olympics. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE: Commissioned to paint 31 watercolors depicting various sport events in the history of the Olympics, for the book titled GOLDEN MOMENTS published by the United States government. TOKYO DESIGNER COLLEGE: October 1985 toured Japan giving lectures in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Kyushu.
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CLIENTS: |
Bob Peak has worked with various clients, a selected few include: Old Hickory Whiskey, Life, Look, Esquire, American, Cosmopolitan, Red Book, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, McCalls, Good Housekeeping, TV Guide, Puritan Sportswear, TWA, Delta, Western Airlines, Coca-Cola, Owens-Illinois, Schaefer Beer, 7-Up, Paramount Pictures, Universal, United Airlines, Orion, Zoetrop, Walt Disney, 20th Century Fox, MGM, Henson and Associates, Western Bell, New York Racing Association, Phillip Morris, Special Olympics, and the United States Postal Service. | ||
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