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Bruce Bomberger

Bruce Bomberger (1918 - 1980) was active/lived in California, New York.  Bruce Bomberger is known for Illustration, wildlife, genre painting.

An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest,  and others, he also painted for advertising campaigns,  most notably wildlife paintings for the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company and The Marlboro Man. 

In the early months of the Marlboro Country campaign, in order to ferret out maximum appeal, advertising agent guru Leo Burnett turned to artist Bruce Bomberger for an illustrated special series of advertisements.   Offering an alternative medium and different content, these ads, most likely, ran right alongside the more mainstream photography medium.  Whereas the mainstream ads were classic Marlboro Man cruising Marlboro Country, the Bomberger illustrated series focused on the cowboy's tack.  The first advertisement appeared in Time Magazine, October 23rd, 1964.  That ad featured his rope.  It was soon followed by his rope, boot and spur, hat and glove, and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1886 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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