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• Raised in Michigan, became a rodeo bull rider at the age of 10
• 1972 University of Colorado-Fine Arts
• Began a career as a painter in 1975 near NYC
First Gold medal 1976-New York Art Directors Club
Hundreds of awards from art journals worldwide as well as organizations such as; The New York One Show, Detroit, Miami, Connecticut, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco Art Directors Clubs, the Boston Creative Show,
TIME MAGAZINE
IBM
ANHEUSER-BUSCH
HARPER-COLLINS
XEROX
AUREOLE LAS VEGAS
CBS
LEVI-STRAUSS
COORS
ESQUIRE
AMERICAN EXPRESS
TV GUIDE
NEWSWEEK
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
OPRAH MAGAZINE
 U. S. POSTAL SERVICE
ABC
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
C P STEAK LAS VEGAS
RANDOM HOUSE
ROLLING STONE
RCA
WARNER COMM.
PLAYBOY
BUSINESS WEEK
NOTRE DAME
CHARLIE PALMER FOODS
AIG
SIMON & SCHUSTER
SMITH COLLEGE
AUREOLE NEW YORK
BARD COLLEGE
3M CORPORATION
MOBIL
GRAYSON MT. WATER
DISNEY
NEW YORK TIMES
FORTUNE
HYPERION BOOKS
PARAMOUNT
KNOPF
BUDWEISER
MASTERCARD
HEINEKEN
CHAMPION PAPER
Catholic Press Association, etc.
• Exhibited at the Georges Pompidou Museum, Paris; Society of Illustrators, NYC (dozens of times); Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA; School House Museum, Purdy’s, NY, Housatonic Museum of Art, CT, etc.
• First piece obtained by The Smithsonian Museum, Wash. DC-1978 (41 pieces currently in the
museum’s collection)
• 17 Time Magazine covers to date; weekly “Person of the Week” artist, Time Asia
• 5 Newsweek Magazine covers to date
• Designer for WindStar Cruises, Seabourn Cruise Line and Holland America
• Dozens of Forbes covers to date including the 75th Anniversary cover
46 U.S. Postal stamps in circulation including: the series of 4 entitled- “Classic Mail Transportation” stamps voted best of the year in a nationwide poll for 1989; the series of 20 “Legends of the West” also voted best of the year for 1994; and the series of 20 on the “Civil War” also voted best of the year for 1995
12 United Nations stamps celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union
•I nstructor of senior illustration majors at The School of Visual Arts, NYC for 11 years
• Work published frequently in; Communication Arts, Print Magazine, Graphis, AIGA books, Society of Illustrators Annuals, etc. Featured artist in Pro-Illustration Volume Two, Graphis 328, etc.
• Frequent speaker and judge at art director clubs, schools and art organizations
Children’s books: Disney’s ‘Hercules’; ‘Drummer Boy’ & ‘What Did I Know of Freedom?’, HarperCollins
• Works in the collections of Donald Trump, Fordham University, Time Warner, Malcolm Forbes, Smithsonian Museum, Charlie Palmer, National Portrait Gallery, Oklahoma State House, John Scofield, Bard College, Jeff Draime, etc.
• Listed in Who’s Who in American Art
• Member of the Society of Illustrators, Graphic Artists Guild, Portrait Society of America, American Philatelic Society and Board Menmber of Kent Film Festival
• Lives and works in a rural setting near NYC with his wife and 3 children and his ‘56 Corvette


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