BIOGRAPHY
Gill
Cohen ASAA
A
highly schooled fine arts illustrator, Gil Cohen studied under
Henry C. Pitz at the Philadelphia College of Art. In 1955,
Cohen served as artist with the SHAEF Headquarters, Military
Intelligence U.S. Army in West Germany.
His subsequent career as a freelance artist included service
to a multitude of clients including the U.S. Information Agency,
the National Park Service, Paramount Pictures, Bantam Books,
Harlequin Books, Random House, Holt Reinhart Winston, the
U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Coast Guard, Warner-Lambert and Boeing-Sikorsky.
Truly
a "gold medal artist" Gil Gohen's exhibitions and
awards are numerous. They include the National Military Park
system, the Kennedy Center and the Pentagon. He has been awarded
gold medals and best of shows by the American Society of Aviation
Artists and has received the certificate of merit from the
New York Society of Illustrators, as well as the Franklin
Mint Award. Cohen is a member of the Air Force Art Program,
the New York Society of Illustrators and serves as Coast Guard
Illustrator. As an Artist Fellow Member of the American Society
of Aviation Artists, he has held the position of Vice President
and Chairman of the Exhibition Committee.
He
also has a great interest in history and aviation which is
reflected in much of his work. His vivid interest in the human
aspects of the various wars throughout the centuries zeros
in on the interactions between men, which eventually have
lead to confrontations and successive warring between peoples
and nations. He is continually mystified by the recurring
observations that some of the most beautiful mechanisms of
engineering, designed by humans, are often created by man
for the purpose of war.
Cohen's
creative energies are excited and stimulated by the abstract
and geometric shapes of structures of all kinds. He has a
keen interest in outer space and related subjects.
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