Paul Calle

[USA] (b 1928/d 2010)

"Paul Calle was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on March 3, 1928. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and during the Korean War was an illustrator for the Army. Early in his career, Mr. Calle did cover artwork for science-fiction pulp magazines like Galaxy, Fantasy Fiction and Super Science Stories, as well as for general-interest publications like The Saturday Evening Post. In 1962, he was among the inaugural group of artists chosen for the NASA Art Program, a documentary record of the space program that has produced thousands of works to date. (...) Calle is a master of both the oil painting and the pencil drawing. His drawings — often very large — show incredible control and sensitivity; they have the quality of fine etchings. Few contemporary artists have attained greater mastery of the pencil than Calle, who shares his skills in his book, The Pencil, a record of his odyssey as "an artist with a pencil." It has been translated into French, Chinese and Russian. (....)  His drawings and paintings have been widely exhibited in the United States as well as in the former Soviet Union, Sweden and Poland. (...) "

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Biography and Photo : www.artbarbarians.com

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USA 1967 "US Space Achievements" (2,2,2) [Recess][Litho] Sc(1331,1332)

USA 1969 "First Man on the Moon" (1) [Recess][Litho] Sc(C75)

USA 1971 "91th Birth Anniversary of General Douglas MacArthur" (1) [Recess] Sc(1424)

USA 1974 "Birth Centenary of  Robert Frost (Poet)" (1) [Recess] Sc(1525)

USA 1974 "Help for Retarded children" (1) [Recess] Sc(1549)

USA 1976 "Birth Centenary of Clara Maass (martyr to Yellow Fever)" (1) [Photo] Sc(1699)

USA 1979 "International Year of the child" (1) [Engr (J.S.Creamer)(A.Saavedra)][Recess] Sc(1772)

USA 1980 "Birth Centenary of Hellen Keller" (1) [Engr (T.R.Hipschen)(T.J.Bakos)][Recess][Litho] Sc(1824)

USA 1980/1984 "Great Americans (1st Series)" (26,26,1) [Engr (T.R.Hipschen)][Recess] Sc(1848)

USA 1980 "Air Mail / Aviation Pioneers" (2,2,1) [Photo] Sc(C99)

USA 1981 "Frederic Remington Commemoration" (1) [Engr (R.G.Culin)(G.M.Chaconas)][Recess][Litho] Sc(1934)

USA 1982 "Ageing Together" (1) [Engr (J.S.Wallace)(R.G.Culin)][Recess] Sc(2011)

USA 1984 "Vietnam Veterans Memorial" (1) [Recess] Sc(2109)

USA 1988 "American Folk Art Series (1st Series)" (4,4,4) [Recess][Litho] Sc(2390,...,2393)

USA 1990/1995 "Transports Issue" (12,12,1) [Recess] Sc(2453)

USA 1994 "25th Anniversary of the First Moon Landing" (2,2,2) [joint effort with his Son Chris Calle][Litho 29c][Recess/Litho $9.95] Sc(2841,2842)

USA 1995 "American Folk Art Series (2nd Series)" (4,4,4) [Recess][Litho] Sc(2976,...,2979)

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