WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS AND COUNTRY   THE ARTIST - GIL COHEN   A highly schooled fine arts illustrator, Gil Cohen studied under Henry C. Pitz at the Philadelphia College of Art. In 1955, Cohen served as artist with the SHAEF Headquarters, Military Intelligence U.S. Army in West Germany.

His subsequent career as a freelance artist included service to a multitude of clients including the U.S. Information Agency, the National Park Service, Paramount Pictures, Bantam Books, Harlequin Books, Random House, Holt Reinhart Winston, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Coast Guard, Warner-Lambert and Boeing-Sikorsky.

Truly a "gold medal artist" Gil Gohen's exhibitions and awards are numerous. They include the National Military Park system, the Kennedy Center and the Pentagon. He has been awarded gold medals and best of shows by the American Society of Aviation Artists and has received the certificate of merit from the New York Society of Illustrators, as well as the Franklin Mint Award. Cohen is a member of the Air Force Art Program, the New York Society of Illustrators and serves as Coast Guard Illustrator. As an Artist Fellow Member of the American Society of Aviation Artists, he has held the position of Vice President and Chairman of the Exhibition Committee.

He also has a great interest in history and aviation which is reflected in much of his work. His vivid interest in the human aspects of the various wars throughout the centuries zeros in on the interactions between men, which eventually have lead to confrontations and successive warring between peoples and nations. He is continually mystified by the recurring observations that some of the most beautiful mechanisms of engineering, designed by humans, are often created by man for the purpose of war.

Cohen's creative energies are excited and stimulated by the abstract and geometric shapes of structures of all kinds. He has a keen interest in outer space and related subjects.

Gil Cohen Signed & Numbered Limited Edition Artist Proof "One of the Many" RAF Bomber Command Crewman

A Limited Edition Fine Art Print Honoring the Royal Air Force

The RAF Bomber Command Crewman was the final link in the intricate chain of command that enabled the Royal Air Force to accomplish thousands of strategic combat missions. All the planning and preparative efforts of hundreds of personnel rested in the hands of the combat crews of the heavy bombers. Each crewman handled his individual feelings and emotion in his own personal way as he went out to his respective hard stand to proceed to the "target for tonight."

 

This 12-1/2" by 20" image size Artist Proof, 17" by 25" overall, limited to 50, is signed by the artist and cosigned by Group Captain. W. L. Farquharson, DFC and Air Commodore W. J. Burnett, DSO, OBE, DFC, & AFC.

 

 From an original charcoal and pastel drawing

 

A Limited Edition print is restricted to a certain number. For example, if 400 prints are made from an original painting, once they’re gone, that’s it. There is no limit to the number of open edition prints of a particular painting. That’s why Limited Edition prints are more expensive — and more valuable to collectors — than "open" edition.  Rare objects are more valuable.