Friday 13 November 2020

Boris Artzybasheff - part 6

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 - 5 also. This is part 6 of a 12-part series on the works of Boris Artzybasheff:

1942 Time magazine
Sir Arthur Wm. Tedder, British Air Chief Marshal artwork

1942 The Tree of Life
Selections from the literature of the world's religions

1942 Time magazine
Admiral Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Operations artwork

1942 Time magazine August 11
Marshal von Rundstedt

1942 Time magazine July 20
Fireman Shostakovich
(Dmitri Shostakovich)

1942 Time magazine July 20
Dmitri Shostakovich artwork

1942 Time magazine
Marshal Timoshenko of Russia

1942 Time magazine May 11
Maxim Litvinoff

1942 Time magazine May 11 
Maxim Litvinoff artwork 
gouache and graphite on illustration board 27.3 x 24.3 cm
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

1942 Time magazine September 21
Field Marshal Fedor-von-Bock
Commander of Germany's Eastern-Front

1942 Time magazine September 21 
Field Marshal Fedor-von-Bock
Commander of Germany's Eastern-Front artwork

1943 Ajax and Aero advertisement

1943 Ajax and Aero Sanitary Paper Drinking Cups
The advertisement is encouraging the use of the product to prevent the spread of illness among war plant production workers

1943 Fortune magazine
Jesse Jones

1943 Fortune magazine June issue
Corn Kernel

1943 Time magazine February 15
Admiral Nagano of Japan

1943 Time magazine February 15
Admiral Nagano of Japan artwork 
gouache on illustration board 26.6 x 23.3 cm
 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

1943 Time magazine
General Harold George, Army Air Force Transport Command artwork

1943 Time magazine January 4
Joseph Stalin
(Man of the Year)

1943 Time magazine January 4 
Joseph Stalin artwork
(Man of the Year)

1943 Time magazine July 12
Turkish Premier Sukru Saracoglu

1943 Time magazine July 12 
Turkish Premier Sukru Saracoglu artwork

1943 Time magazine March 15
Elmer Davis, Head of the Office of War Information

1943 Time magazine March 15 
Elmer Davis, Head of the Office of War Information artwork

1943 Time magazine May 10
Admiral Karl Doenitz

1943 Time magazine May 10 Admiral Karl Doenitz artwork
 gouache, ink and graphite pencil on illustration board
26.8 x 23.9 cm
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

1943 Time magazine November 8
Admiral Mineichi Koga, Japanese Imperial Navy

1943 Time magazine November 8 
Admiral Mineichi Koga, Japanese Imperial Navy artwork

1943 Time magazine October 11
Heinrich Himler, Nazi S.S. Chief 

1943 Time magazine October 11 
Heinrich Himler, Nazi S.S. Chief artwork

1943 Time magazine Russian Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky artwork

1943 Time magazine September 6
Businessman Paul Hoffman

1943 Time magazine September 6 
Businessman Paul Hoffman artwork

1943 Time magazine
Sir Andrew B. Cunningham

1943 Time magazine 
Sir Andrew B. Cunningham artwork

1943 Wyandotte Chemicals Corporation
 Unmasked!

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