page_title: Gil Cohen (artist)
section_title: Illustration art
hierarchical_section_title: Gil Cohen (artist) / Career / Illustration art
caption_attribution_description: English: Imagery of balloonists in the Arctic by Gil Cohen (born July 28, 1931 in Philadelphia)—an American artist, noted for his illustrations of aircraft and people in military service, who also illustrated men's magazines, books and movie posters.
context_page_description: Gil Cohen is an American artist, noted for his illustrations of aircraft and people in military service, who also illustrated men's magazines, books and movie posters.
context_section_description: During the 1950s and 60s, Cohen worked as a free-lance illustrator for men's adventure magazines—a common genre of the time. One such publisher was Magazine Management Company—with magazines that included Male, Stag, and For Men Only—whose assignments required complex illustrations, executed on a short deadline, often involving duotone technique (using black plus one other color on the printed page).
  A 1961 assignment for Argosy magazine to illustrate a serialized version of Ian Fleming's James Bond novel, Thunderball, led to later assignments from another publisher to illustrate book covers for the Mack Bolan series of The Executioner novels by Don Pendleton.
  His illustration work expanded to more mainstream clientele that included the U.S. Information Agency, the National Park Service, Paramount Pictures, Bantam Books, Harlequin Books, Random House, Holt Rinehart & Winston, Warner-Lambert, the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Guard Bureau, and the Boeing and Sikorsky Aircraft companies.
caption: “The Great Balloon Race to the North Pole”, cover art for Man's World, January 1961
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