Robert McCall

Robert McCall studied at Columbus College of Art and Design. Employment is recorded with The Walt Disney Company and National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Work by Robert McCall is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, National Portrait Gallery and Print Collection.

• Name — Robert T. McCall • Born — 23 December 1919 • Birthplace — Columbus, Ohio, U.S. • Died — 26 February 2010 • Place of death — Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S. • Known for — Painting, illustrations • Website — http: www.mccallstudios.com

McCall was an illustrator for Life magazine in the 1960s, created promotional artwork for Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Richard Fleischer's production Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and worked as an artist for NASA, documenting the history of the Space Race. McCall was also production illustrator on Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and Walt Disney's The Black Hole (1979). The character Commander William Riker expressed admiration for the work of "Bob McCall" in one episode of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. McCall's work can be found on U.S. postage stamps, and also NASA mission patches such as for Apollo 17. He has created murals for the walls of the National Air and Space Museum, the National Gallery of Art, The Pentagon, Epcot, and Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. McCall was also commissioned by The Walt Disney Company to do a painting called "The Prologue and The Promise" for the Epcot attraction, Horizons in 1983. Guests could see the mural at the end of the attraction as they exited. McCall appeared as an imposter for a U.S. Air Force pilot on the June 24, 1963 episode of To Tell the Truth. He received one of the four possible votes from the panel. McCall died in 2010 of heart failure in Scottsdale, Arizona.

• Illustration — Apollo Soyuz Program, 1974 • Illustration — Apollo 8 Coming Home, 1971 • Illustration — Teague Auditorium Lobby mural • Illustration — U.S. stamp design, Apollo & Soyuz After Docking, 1975

Robert McCall is recorded as painter, postage stamp designer and scientific illustrator.