Bob peak art

bob peak : cosmopolitan magazine, 1957

Bob Peak started out in the 1950s as just one of many young, capable illustrators. But in the 1960s, Peak caught fire and began turning out radically different work. His line work had roots in the Viennese Secessionist movement (particularly Schiele and Klimt) and in the great Rene Bouche, but Peak's hot, fluorescent color combinations were unprecedented; his extreme angles, cinematic style, and space age dynamism were blazingly original. Nobody else was doing work like this at the time…

"Illustration is an interpretation of an idea." "This has nothing to do with technique - use of color, realism. These are mere tools." "It ...

Illustration by Bob Peak of "The Promise" by Robert A. Knowlton, "Good Housekeeping" April 1964

The 1950s and ’60s were a time when most wanna-be illustrators wanted to be Bob Peak. It was also the moment when illustration was at a crossroads. Would it continue to merely serve or illuminate a text, or would it say something more? Since the emerging editorial themes (war, peace, race, etc.) were more socially and metaphorically charged, the substance and style of illustration could no longer be entirely realistic. Certain levels of abstraction were filtered into the Amer

by Bob Peak

Cosmopolitan magazine Illustrated by Bob Peak June 1964

Puritan clothing ad detail, 1961, art by Bob Peak

Bob Peak 1971