You are bidding on beautiful original painting of President Jimmy Carter by Ross Barron Storey (American, 1940 - ) Mixed media on artist board, 32 in High x 24 in. Wide. Signed lower right Barron Storey. Framed under glass 32 in. H x 24 in. W in 3/4 inch aluminum molding.
Depicts front shoulder length bust of President jimmy Carter. The collector we purchased the painting from represented
this as a Time Magazine cover; however our research doesn't show that this painting ever ran as a cover. It is a dazzling beautifully executed portrait highlighting Storey's mastery of portraiture. Painted circa 1980.
Condition: Excellent condition: Beautiful colors and toning.
Biography: (Wikipedia)
Barron Storey is an art teacher and artist. He is famous for his accomplishments as an illustrator and fine artist, and for his influence on several professional illustrators and writers, including Bill Sienkiewicz, Dave McKean, Kent Williams, George Pratt. One of the most famous of his works is the cover for Lord of the Flies, a novel by William Golding.
Accomplishments:
Barron was the winner of the New York Society of Illustrators' Gold Medal in 1976 for his portrait of Lotte Lenya, and was later named the Society of Illustrator's Instructor of the Year in 2001. He currently teaches at the California College of Art in San Francisco, San Jose State University, and Pixar Studios.
Barron has created illustrations for magazines such as Boys' Life, Reader's Digest, National Geographic, leather-bound classics for the Franklin Library, books like War and Peace, The Good Earth, and the collected works of Theodore Dreiser. Among his most seen works is the cover for the 1980 reissue of Lord of the Flies, which for years was the best-selling paperback book in the country, in part because of its provocative cover painting of a young boy who looks half frightened, half fearless.
His giant painting of the South American rain forest hangs in New York's American Museum of Natural History. Another of his celebrated pieces — a 1979 rendering of the space shuttle commissioned by NASA, the first official painting ever done of the flying machine — hangs in the Air and Space Museum on the National Mall. His covers for Time, portraits of Howard Hughes and Yitzhak Rabin, and many others, hang in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
Additional Biography:
Barron Storey's formal art training was conducted at Art Center in Los Angeles and under Robert Weaver at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His early illustrations in the mid 60's started with mechanical and vehicular subjects but quickly expanded to all subjects for many major magazines. Work in this period earned him a place in Walt Reed's book, 200 Years of American Illustrators.
Subsequent portrait oriented work for Electra and RCA Records led to some of the most highly prized commercial work available 3?4approximately a dozen covers for Time magazine, including the first major illustration of Howard Hughes' later days. This historic work was produced in a half-hour while speaking with the coroner from the Time magazine office. This and other broad exposure along with significant attention from the Society of Illustrators solidified Storey's ascension into the most elite group of American illustrators, joining his peers Bob Peak, Bernie Fuchs and Mark English.
Storey also proved to be one of the finest professors of Illustration, teaching at various times at all of the finest commercial art schools in America. 1976 found Storey moving from New York to Los Angeles to become Chairman of Illustration at his alma mater, Art Center College of Design.
The same year he won the Society of Illustrators' Gold Medal for his portrait of Lotte Lenya. Storey returned to New York in '79 to paint, with top government security clearance, the first major portrayal of the space shuttle for NASA. This huge painting now hangs in Washington's Air and Space Museum and a print of the painting was featured regularly on the set of the popular television show, Northern Exposure. Many gallery shows followed as well as landmark work for National Geographic and Franklin Library. Storey then embarked on the Herculean undertaking of a South American rainforest mural for the American Museum of Natural History.
During the early 80's, Storey continued his teaching at Pratt Institute and Syracuse University. Although the caliber of Storey's work placed him in an elite group with Peak, Fuchs, and English. His personal drive away from 'business as usual' and toward the Avant Garde brought him more into the area of an experimental fine artist. Additionally, a habit of keeping visual journals had opened a personal visual vocabulary different from both illustration and fine art.
By 1984 his versatile talent had led him to San Francisco: performing in concerts with his ensemble, composing music for theater and film, and writing and performing theatrical productions around the world. The late 80's and early 90's found many of Storey's students Kent Williams, George Pratt, John Van Fleet, and his friends Bill Sienkiewicz and Dave McKean, making big names for themselves in the emerging graphic novel field. Recalling how they had been inspired by Storey's journals, some of these associates helped in securing Storey a contract with Tundra publishing. The Tundra published Marat/Sade Journals appeared in 1993 as a limited edition leather bound hardback. This was the first opportunity many of the artist's fans had to see his personal, non-commercial art and went on to be nominated for a Harvey Award as Best Graphic Album. Since then his students, including Scott McCloud, Dan Clowes, Peter Kuper and Dan Brereton continue to rise t the top.
Storey continues to follow his unique muse both in and out of the worlds of fine art, illustration and education. He returns to New York City May 18th, 2001 to accept the Educator of the Year Award from the Society of Illustrators.
Solo Exhibitions:
2009
Cardboard Town, Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Life After Black, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
2007
Victims, Gallery Anno Domini, San Jose, CA
2003
Black Iraq, Gallery Anno Domini, San Jose, 2003
1999
Fong Gallery, San Jose, CA
1979
Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions:
2007
Graphic Novel Art, Ghent and Brussels, Belgium
Fresh Produce, Gallery Anno Domini, San Jose, CA
Osseus Labyrint Retrospective, Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Fresh Produce, Gallery Anno Domini, San Jose, CA
2005
Fresh Produce, Gallery Anno Domini, San Jose, CA
Former Faculty Show, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2001
Screever, Upper Playground Gallery, San Francisco, CA
More B.S. Than You Can Throw A Stick At, Gallery Anno Domini, San Jose
1991
Unfunny Comics, Fobbo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985
Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1980
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1970s
U. S. Information Agency, Moscow
1960s – 1980s
Regular contributor to The Society of Illustrators Annual Shows, New York, NY
Condition: Excellent condition: Beautiful colors and toning.
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