Boris Artzybasheff - part 4

Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965) fought with anti-communist White Russians before emigrating to America (he spoke no English and arrived with 14 cents). A chameleon, able to adapt different styles, from children's books to portraits. Renowned for his ability to turn machines into living beings (and living beings into who-knows-what). Advisor to the Psychological Warfare branch during WW II. A profuse illustrator for mainstream magazines: Life, Fortune, and Time (producing over two hundred covers for the latter). He illustrated fifty books, including those he wrote himself, notably "As I See." He did many illustrations for advertising; for Xerox, Shell Oil, Pan Am, Casco Power Tools, Alcoa Steamship lines, Parke Davis, Avco Manufacturing, Scotch Tape, Wickwire Spencer Steele, Vultee Aircraft, World Airways, and Parker Pens. Mechanics Illustrated profiled him with a cover story in 1954, "When Machines Come to Life."

For more information on Artzybasheff see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1 - 3 also. This is part 4 of a 12-part series on the works of Boris Artzybasheff:

1932-1954c Machinalia:

Atlas Copco

Automation in Deutschland

Blooming Mill

Borer Miller

Browne & Sharpe

Electric Welders

Executive

Foaming Presses

Hydraulic Press

Machinalia

Machinalia

Machinalia

Machinalia

Machinalia

Machinalia

Machinalia

Machinalia

Making Steel

Milling

Mud Puddle

Navy Computer

One Lump Please

Planer

Radial Drill

Riveter

Rod Mill

Screw Cutter

Stranding Wire

Weaving Fence

Wire Drawing

Wire Hell-Fire

Wire Looms

Xerox

1934-1954 Neurotica:

Addiction

Alcoholism

Anxiety

Gastric Ulcers

Hypochondria

Indecision

Infantilism

Melancholia

Repressed Hostility

Schizophrenia

Timidity

Vanity

"We are getting to the bottom of it."