He was given much to work with - he was able to see rushes and some black-and-white stills - but not much time. In a 2010 interview with the Illustrated 007, McGinnis said he was brought to the producers' attention by Don Smolen, an artist and designer at United Artists. 7 Illustration Art Signature® Auction, alongside original poster art by the likes of Robert Peak, Thomas Blackshear and Drew Struzan - all fellow Society of Illustrators Hall of Famers. It is among the big-screen highlights in Heritage's Oct. Heritage Auctions is thrilled to bring to market this October one of McGinnis' most celebrated, imitated and adored works: his original illustration for 1965's Thunderball poster, the first of his Bond works. Leyendecker, Al Hirschfeld, Rube Goldberg, Maurice Sendak and other titans of the medium. In that hallowed pantheon, McGinnis, a guard and tackle on Ohio State University's 1944 title-winning team, stands proudly and properly alongside Norman Rockwell, J.C.
"If a person is to be judged by the sum of their life's experiences and an artist is judged by the sum of the expression in their work, then Bob McGinnis is so truly deserving of the Hall of Fame," its director Terry Brown said upon McGinnis' induction in 1993. They hang on museum walls, have appeared in numerous classic advertisements and for decades decorated countless movie theaters showing such films as Breakfast at Tiffany's, Semi-Tough, The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, Barbarella, The Incredibles and a decade's worth of James Bond films.
They live forever on bookshelves, adorning the covers to hundreds of pulp paperbacks and romance novels and the interiors of swashbuckling titles. The 96-year-old's paintings have appeared in dozens of magazines, ranging from 1950s men's mags Cavalier and True tothe pages of The Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan and even National Geographic. Dallas - You know Robert McGinnis' work - famous faces, drop-dead bodies, glitz and glam and grime illuminating a single image - even if you do not know Robert McGinnis.
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