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Bob (Robert) Peak (1927 - 1992) was active/lived in New York, Kansas, Connecticut, Arizona, Colorado. Bob Peak is known for Magazine and poster illustrator, portrait and landscape painter.
Considered "the father of the contemporary movie poster," Bob Peak likely transformed the approach to movie advertising from basic collages of film stills or head shots to flamboyant artistic illustrations. After his first poster for
West Side Story
in 1960, he went on to create more than 100 posters for such films as
Camelot, My Fair Lady, Superman, Apocalypse Now, Excalibur
and
Star Trek III
, just to name a few. Although a large percentage of his work was for the film industry, Peak was not short on editorial assignments with 45 covers of
Time Magazine
featuring his illustrations -most notably the portrait of Mother Teresa.
Peak's flexibility kept him moving and won him eclectic assignments: in 1964 he hunted Ibex with the Shah of Iran for
Sports Illustrated
; he received the largest commission for an individual artist from the U.S. Postal Service, to design over 30 stamps and 31 watercolor paintings depicting various hist ...
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. There are 24 similar (related) artists for Bob Peak available:
Bernard (Bernie) Fuchs
,
Robert Heindel
,
Robert McGinnis
,
Mark English
,
Henry Raleigh
,
George Petty
,
Donald Rusty Rust
,
George Rozen
,
Richard Amsel
,
Rudy Nappi
,
Sidney Riesenberg
,
Bill Randall
,
Walt Otto
,
Mayo Olmstead
,
Jack Thurston
,
Frank Rudolph Paul
,
K Gunnor Petersen
,
George Porter
,
Norman Mills Price
,
William Reusswig
,
Howard Rogers
,
Andrew Loomis
,
John Held Jr
,
Howard Pyle
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