The works of Robert McCall are a rich tapestry that encompasses more than just the history of space exploration and visions of the future. McCall is a talent whose depth and richness of spirit are translated into a special invitation. His work invites one to ride on a spectrum of color, brilliance, and imagination-to become part of the twisting kaleidoscope that is our ever-expanding knowledge of the universe.
Ten million people a year admire his massive six-story-high mural in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D. Postal Service that commemorate the space program.
McCall is an optimist and dreamer, unrestrained by scale, unlimited by location, unconfined by the boundaries of what is known or what can be imagined.
As one stands in awe of the visual poetry that is the art of Robert McCall it is apparent that this is a talent that competes with the scope of the subject itself.
Yet if you watch him closely, if you study that expressive face, you see that there is a far look in his blue eyes, a gaze that sees into the future. At the easel, his expressiveness moves to the tips of his fingers. He falls silent. He stands before the easel or perches on a high stool for hours on end, as he paints. On the canvas a new glimpse of tomorrow begins to take shape.
All the enthusiasm and knowledge pent up in him takes the form of a picture of futuristic beauty where human beings are building a good new world for themselves. Louis, the Apollo 11 command module and a sliver of rock from the Moon. If you saw the now-classic motion picture A Space Odyssey, chances are you were attracted to it by posters featuring the paintings of Robert T.
His vision of the wheel-shaped space station and of space-suited astronauts on the Moon have adorned movie theaters and art museums around the world. If you have ever bought U. McCall picture. Some of his stamps have been to the Moon and back. Like so many other men and women who find themselves not only fascinated by space exploration, but actively devoting their careers to it, Robert McCall first became interested in space flight and astronautics through reading science fiction.
He was born in Columbus , Ohio , in , a Middle American from the heart of the nation. He graduated from high school and won a scholarship to the Columbus Fine Art School. Like many an American, he started working even before his schooling was finished. At the age of seventeen he took a job with a local sign shop, which made posters for streetcars and outdoor advertising billboards. He wrote many articles, and my father had stacks of the old journals. I can remember reading through those and going through the old medical books when I was eight, nine, ten years old.
McCall knew he wanted to be an artist as early as the age of eight. Yet he had an intense interest in science and technology, as well. For a while the family cherished hopes that he would become a physician, like his grandfather. But by the time Bob was a teenager it was clear that his special talent was in drawing. I loved to draw military subjects-conflict and battle.
Knights and their armor had a special fascination for me then. There were no astronauts when Bob McCall was a teenager, only tales of space adventures in, pulp magazines. But he remembers the first flying machines he ever saw, a group of biplanes that roared low over Columbus when he was about seven years old. They were huge! But they looked enormous to me then. And the thing I liked about airplanes, in addition to the look of them, was the noise, It was a driving, powerful sound.
He got his chance to hear the driving, powerful roar of aircraft engines over and over again when he joined the Army Air Corps during World War II. The war ended before he could be sent overseas. Her work has been displayed in collections throughout the country, and she has had a number of solo shows.
After the war, Bob and his bride went to Chicago , where he entered the demanding world of advertising art. His aim was to become a first-rank illustrator, like Norman Rockwell or N. So the first step for me was Chicago. Instead of concentrating on advertising art, however, Bob began painting magazine illustrations. Much of his work dealt with aviation.
In the s the space program began. It really inspired me. And then, back to the sound again. The sound of a Saturn V launching is an awesome experience. The sound is just incredible! He got into the space program through an Air Force connection. In the mids the Air Force started inviting artists on trips to air bases and installations all over the world.
There the artists made sketches, took photographs, and then returned to their studios to produce paintings that were annually presented to the Air Force at a special dinner. To Bob McCall, this was not only a chance to be with the men and machines he loved to draw, it was an opportunity to see the world.
He visited the Louvre and the other great museums of Europe for the first time. He saw for himself the masterpieces of European art. In time, McCall donated some 45 paintings to the Air Force. They hang in the Pentagon, the Air Force Academy, and in air bases around the world. Others are part of a traveling exhibition, open to the public. McCall was among the first to be invited to participate, along with some of the most well-known painters in the United States , such as Jamie Wyeth, Peter Hurd, Robert Rauschenberg, and Norman Rockwell.
He became an eyewitness to the space program, covering every major launch, frequently at his own expense because NASA could not extend an official invitation to the same painter every time. But Bob McCall was there, every time. He was with the astronauts when they laboriously wormed into their cumbersome space suits. He even tried the task himself, to see what it was like from the inside.
He went up the gantry elevator with them and watched them clamber into their spacecraft. He stood in the control center during the countdown and sketched the final tense moments before launch. He even went out on an aircraft carrier to witness the recovery of astronauts from an ocean landing. It started with paintings he did for Life magazine in the early s, depicting future spacecraft. It accelerated when Stanley Kubrick invited him to England to paint advertising posters for the film A Space Odyssey.
There he met not only Kubrick, but Arthur C. Clarke, the writer whose work in science fiction and engineering technology had helped to create the space program and the first communications satellites. McCall began to paint the future. Not merely the spacecraft of tomorrow, but the entire range of human experience in a future where we use our technology to build a life of abundance and adventure. It could be a thousand years from now or it could be tomorrow-or tonight.
These space habitats will be more beautiful because we will plan and condition that beauty to suit our needs. I see a future that is very bright. I like realism in art. The reason I now paint the future almost exclusively, and document the space program, is that I am interested in science and technology and this accumulating, snowball effect of knowledge.
The uniqueness of Robert T. Because of his talent we can see this future too: inspect it, enjoy it, and I resolve to help build it. Robert McCall lives in two worlds. The first — the one that brought him fame as an artist -is the rich, fertile world of his imagination. In this highly animated world, McCall has spent most of his nearly 85 years reaching beyond our earthly boundaries to explore-through his art-the universe in all its imaginative possibilities.
In the comfort of the spacious, light-drenched studio that adjoins his home, Robert McCall appears trim, tan and relaxed. As if to emphasize the fact, he casually swings his right leg over the armrest of an office chair and sits in that manner throughout a lengthy interview. It was there, as a child, that he says he nourished his interest in art in the rare book room at the Carnegie Public Library.
I could spend hours looking at page after page of these beautiful, hand-colored lithographs and illustrations. Drawing on his experience skating on ice covered ponds around the Columbus area, he began sketching ice skates. Other inspiration came from the artists working in the books and magazines that he regularly absorbed.
One in particular, N. From there, McCall began a life-long fascination with painting armor-clad and uniformed knights and other heroic figures. He later attended art school on a scholarship in that same city.
Through the years, they became frequent vehicles for his increasingly sophisticated work. Out of this early experience, McCall says he found his true niche in painting imaginative, futuristic, technological subjects.
After enlisting in the Army Air Corps where he served as a bombardier, he found — in aircraft — even more inspiration. The experience provided him with background for some of the illustration work he was doing for the U. Air Force, as a civilian. I just loved it. With much of his work in New York, McCall and his wife eventually settled in the upstate town of Chappaqua; but, after 15 years, they were ready for a move. In , they visited Paradise Valley at the invitation of some New York friends who had relocated here.
When they met on a blind date, Louise was a year-old art student in Albuquerque, N. Their mutual attraction was immediate and lasting. A praiseworthy and prolific artist in her own right, Louise McCall works in a decidedly different niche than her husband.
Several years ago the McCalls collaborated on a breath-taking stained glass project at their church, Valley Presbyterian in Scottsdale. The Reverend Dr. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare. The Robert McCall Museum is being planned as an The museum, which has a projected opening date of , is tentatively planned to be located adjacent to the Challenger Space Science Center, in Peoria. We seem to relate to the same things.
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