Artists
Featured Artists
Dale Gallon
Dale Gallon lives and works in Gettysburg, the site of the pivotal battle of the Civil War. A native of Southern California, Dale Gallon began his interest in art and military history at a young age. He graduated from the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles where he was given a scholarship from Hallmark Cards.
Don Troiani
Don Troiani is an American painter whose work focuses on his native country's military heritage, mostly from the American Revolution, War of 1812 and American Civil War.
John Young
John Young was born in England in 1930 and went to the Royal Grammar School in Buckinghamshire and the School of Art in High Wycombe. Inspired by a visit to "Sir Alan Cobham's National Aviation Day", an aviation exhibition in a field near his home in Chesham, his love affair with flying machines began.
Larry Selman
Larry Selman was born in Pennsylvania and raised in a military family. Following graduation from York Academy of Art in 1982, he built a successful career in the illustration field, by collaborating with the top art directors and major publishers in New York and around the United States.
Mort Kunstler
Mort Künstler (born August 28, 1927) is an American artist known for his narrative and realistic fine art paintings and illustrations. During his prolific career, spanning more than seven decades, he has produced paintings of diverse subjects and artistic genres.
Nicolas Trudgian
Nicolas Trudgian is a landscape artist who paints in time-honoured tradition, and it shows in his aviation art. Since he exploded on to the fine art scene at the end of the 1980s, Nicolas Trudgian has established himself as a best-selling aviation artist.
Phil Pierce
Phil Pierce is an artist renowned for his military-themed paintings, capturing the valor and experiences of service members in works like "In the Footsteps of Heroes" and "Lions of the Mountain." His art is celebrated for its detailed portrayal of military life and history.
Robert Bailey
Robert Bailey is an Artist Fellow with the A.S.A.A. and a member of the Canadian Aviation Artists’ Association. He was born and raised in Staffordshire, England. Bailey attended Longton College of Art and for years was in television as a photographer and show host. He has been drawing and painting warplanes since he was four years of age.
Robert Griffing
Griffing studied illustration and design at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and went on to enjoy a 30-year career in advertising. His lifelong interest of Native American and Colonial history was the result of growing up in Western Pennsylvania, where many historic eighteenth-century events took place.
Robert Taylor
The name Robert Taylor has been synonymous with aviation art for over a quarter of a century and he is widely regarded as the world’s premier painter of aviation subjects, and is certainly the most widely collected artist in the history of the genre.
Bradley Schmehl
Bradley Schmehl is an historical artist from central Pennsylvania (where he has resided all his life) who possesses a painterly, realistic style that serves many different genres and subjects extremely well - from portraiture and figures to landscape and architecture, and from placid pastorals to military combat action.
Danny Day
For three decades Danny, while being one of the most prolific and versatile American artists, has established a reputation worldwide for the high quality of his original oil paintings. Danny has made it a lifelong quest to master and refine his version of realism, perfecting the “master’s technique” of oils on canvas.
David R Poole
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Domenic DeNardo
As a child during WWII, Domenic was obsessed with drawing war planes that flew from nearby airfields. His art has been published in periodicals including Aviation Week & Space Technology, Business & Commercial Aviation, Commuter Air, Time, Wall Street Journal, etc. Domenic now devotes full time to aviation art.
Gil Cohen
Gil Cohen is an American artist, noted for his illustrations of aircraft and people in military service, who also illustrated men's magazines, books and movie posters.
Jack Fellow
Jack’s work has been widely collected, in the United States and abroad, in museum collections, and by private collectors. He has won many awards over the years and is the originator and primary financial backer of the Capt. Duane Whitney Martin-Vietnam Airwar Award for Artistic Excellence, awarded annually by the American Society of Aviation Artists.
Jim Laurier
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John Paul Strain
John Paul Strain is an American artist specializing in art depicting American history. He creates hyper-realistic paintings of patriotic historical scenes, such as the American West, Civil War and D-Day, that are exhibited or used by institutions such as the US military, US Park Service and others.
Joseph Szady
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Keith Ferris
A 50 year veteran of the Air Force Art Program, Keith has flown in and participated in the missions of almost every jet aircraft type in the Air Force, and done so not only in the United States, but in Europe, the Atlantic, Pacific, Middle East, Southwest Asia, the Far East and more.
Matt Hall
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Michael Gnatek
Michael Gnatek has long been recognized as the premier painter of portrait of art, prints and posters, both of American military and western figures.
Richard Taylor
From an early age, Richard Taylor had shown an exceptional ability to draw. Not surprising perhaps, having been brought up in a family where fine art drawing, painting, print publishing, gallery receptions and art exhibitions pervaded daily life, but in his case a very rare talent was obvious to all who saw his work.
Rick Herter
After graduating from Spring Arbor University with a B.A. in art in 1984, he took his artistic skills and began working in the commercial art and illustration arena. Herter’s interest in aviation was never far away. Rick’s first commemorative air show poster won a national award.
Rick Reeves
Rick Reeves was born in Tampa, FL in 1959. He began taking art lessons at an early age, from a local artist, in the traditional academic way of the 19th century. This was something not taught in most of the colleges in the 1970’s which focused on abstract and the “everything is art” mentality
Rod Chase
Rod Chase is known to his collectors for producing photo-realism at its finest. This talented artist takes hundreds of photographs of each of his subjects, combining them with historical photographs, to produce a timeless quality in each of his works. Rod was born and raised in Canada.
Ross Buckland
With no formal art training except for high school art classes, Ross learned by studying the work of artists whose paintings he liked. Books and magazines featuring the work of Frank Wootton, Keith Ferris, R.G. Smith and others became his text books. Buckland would visit the Air and Space Museum in Washington to see their paintings and try to learn from the real thing.