- Tim O'Brien (illustrator)
Infobox Artist
name = Tim O'Brien
birthdate = birth date and age |1964|11|16|mf=y
birth_place =New Haven, Connecticut ,U.S.
occupation =illustrator
yearsactive = 1989–present
training =Paier College of Art ,New Haven ,Connecticut Tim O'Brien (b.
November 16 , 1964 inNew Haven, Connecticut ) is an Americanartist .Tim O'Brien is an American
illustrator /artist who works in arealistic style. Illustrations by O'Brien appear in magazines such asTime Magazine ,Newsweek ,The Atlantic Monthly ,National Geographic and others. His illustrations are also used by theUS Postal Service forpostage stamps , such as theJudy Garland stamp cite news | title=The Art of the Stamp, Judy Garland | publisher=Smithsonian Institute | url =http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/tt/artwork/21/ | work =Smithsonian Institute | accessdate = 2008-05-17 ] and theHattie McDaniel stamp cite news | title=The Art of the Stamp, Hattie McDaniel | date= | publisher=Smithsonian Institute | url =http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/tt/artwork/25/ | work =Smithsonian Institute | accessdate = 2008-05-17 ] , both issued in 2006.The second of three boys in his family, O'Brien trained as a boxer in high school and boxed as a middleweight amateur. Beyond his work as an
illustrator he stays active in the boxing world as a trainer.cite news | first=JORY | last=DES JARDINS | coauthors= | title=MAKING IT WORK; An Artist at Work on Two Kinds of Canvas | date=1999-01-10 | publisher=New York Times | url =http://www.obrienillustration.com/nytimes_canvas.html | work =The New York Times | pages =14p.13 | accessdate = 2008-05-17 | language = ]O'Brien received a
Pell Grant and used it to enroll in thePaier College of Art , New Haven, CT., graduating in 1987 with aBachelor of Fine Arts degree. His instructors at Paier includedLeonard Everett Fisher . [ cite web|url=http://www.visualanguage.net/vl/goodwriting1.php?show=obrian_article_Shapiro.html |accessdate=2008-05-19 |last=Shapiro |first=Ellen |date=2002-09 |title= Tim O'Brien - Master Portrait Painter |work=Communication Arts ]In an interviewed conducted by
The Illustrators Guild of Ireland in 2002, O'Brien described his style by saying, "My description is conceptual realism with a leaning toward the slightly idealized". [ cite web|url=http://www.illustratorsireland.com/index.php/features/fullstory/tim_obrien_interview/ |title=Illustrators Ireland: Features |accessdate=2008-05-17 |last=Byrne |first=Tom |date=2002- 03-29 |work=Illustrators Guild of Ireland |publisher=Illustrators Ireland ]Honors and service
Honors
*O'Briens Time Magazine covers are in the collection of theNational Gallery of Art , Washington, DC [ cite web|url=http://www.npg.si.edu/time/ |title=Cover Art: the Time Collection at the National Portrait Gallery |accessdate=2008-05-17 | work=The National Gallery of Art |publisher=National Portrait Gallery ]
*Chosen by Irish American Magazine as one of their 100 top Irish Americans, years 1999 and 2000.
*Awards fromSociety of Illustrators in New York and Los Angeles ·Graphis ·Print Magazine ·Communication Arts Magazine · theSociety of Publication Designers · American Illustration · Art Director's ClubService
*Chairman of the Education Committee,Society of Illustrators , New York (1996-2006).
*Member of the Executive Committee,Society of Illustrators , New York
*Founding Member of the Illustrators’ Partnership of America.
*Executive Vice President of theSociety of Illustrators , New York
*Chairman of 'Illustrators 49' at theSociety of Illustrators
*Completed 10 years as Chairman of the Scholarship Committee at theSociety of Illustrators
*Member of the Illustrators' Advisory Committee at theNorman Rockwell Museum Artistic influences
Paul Cadmus ,George Tooker ,Gottfried Helnwein ,Ingres ,Lord Leighton andIvan Shishkin [ cite web|url=http://www.npg.si.edu/time/ |title=Tim O'Brien Interview |accessdate=2008-05-17 |last=Parker |first=Charley |date=2006-9-15 |work=Lines and Color ]References
External links
* [http://www.obrienillustration.com/ Artists personal website]
* [http://illoz.com/obrien Collection of the artists work] at illoz
* [http://drawger.com/tonka/ Artists personal blog] at Drawger
* [http://www.nrm.org/page67 Artist in panel discussion with Teresa Fasolino] at Norman Rockwell Museum
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