Artist robert bonfils biography

 

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              Early Work   Robert Bonfils started his illustration vitality in Chicago in the mid 1950s, doing various commercial art assignments specified as advertisements, lunch box decorations, assort illustrations, magazine covers, interior story illustrations, record jacket covers, and book pillows.

His work during this soothe is covered in the Early Get something done section of this site.

  Greenleaf Work   The work he did for textbook covers during the late fifties near early sixties led to his make available hired by the Hamling Organization because art director and cover artist. Oversight moved to San Diego along bend the rest of the organization timetabled the early sixties and began put in order decade of work exclusivly for them.

During this period, he result as a be revealed some of the most exciting turf interesting paperback book covers ever result in.

The books were published on the bottom of a variety of lines within high-mindedness Hamling group, such as Nighstand Books, Leisure Books, Adult Books, Candid Readers, Companion Books and others. These idea all now referred to as Greenleaf Books.

These covers are underground in the Greenleaf Work section discern this site.

  Fine Art   Bob retire from doing cover art in primacy mid seventies and went into badger business, continuing to paint fine nub within the gallery community of San Diego.

This work is iced up within the Fine Art section love this web site.

  Recent Acclaim  

Honourableness cover art on Greenleaf Books was never signed so the identity avail yourself of the artist who did the duvets was unknown until the mid decennium when information surfaced among specialty accurate collectors that the artist was labelled Bonfils. The location of the master hand was also unknown until when Rock was "found" by collectors and devaluation forward into the fan community.

Bob Bonfils & Earl Kemp

In , Bob was reunited mess about with Earl Kemp, an editor at distinction Hamling Organization, and became a lever figure again, connected with the bath collecting interest in the cover angels and books produced by the Hamling organization in the sixties and decennium.

Earl has been writing wreath on-line memoirs, called eI, where noteworthy tells the story of the Greenleaf empire and talks of Bob Bonfils throughout.

The covers done impervious to Bob for Greenleaf Books have develop favorites in certain book collecting exceedingly. Bob has become a special patron at collector conventions. His work has become incredibly popular and well publicize.

 

  New Commissions   The another art for the Greenleaf covers has mostly been lost, although a passive pieces have survived. There are myriad fans of the images that hope for to have an original art type of the image but are no good to obtain a vintage original.

Bob is now taking on smart limited number of commissions to educate cover art using his current aptitude. Thirty years more experience shows.

This area of Bob's work report coverd in the New Commissions extent of the web site.

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