WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS AND COUNTRY. THE ARTIST – Roy Grinnell. Oy, born in Santa Barbara, California, has been drawing airplanes ever since he can remember. When he was not drawing them, he was building plastic models, a hobby he still passionately enjoys. When Roy graduated from Santa Barbara High School he decided to join the Navy where he was stationed in Guam. Thereafter, he attended the Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles where he graduated with honors. He moved to NYC where he was an Illustrator on Madison Avenue for several years. Later on, he decided to become a free lance artist. This decision has led him in several interesting directions! Roy enjoys a diverse and varied background in the arts, and his unique talent has given him an incredible opportunity to express himself in his paintings whether the subject is aviation, western and Native American art, wildlife, illustration, impressionism and realism. When you view Roy’s art, you will be amazed at his versatility. As the Official Artist and Honoree of the American Fighter Aces Association, Roy has completed close to 50 original paintings for the AFAA, accurately portraying the aerial combat of aces from WW1, WW2, Vietnam and the Korean War. These paintings are based on the oral history of the aces involved, and as close as they can be to what really occurred as if someone was taking a photograph of the action. Roy has won numerous art awards in both aviation art and western/Native American art. As a western artist, he was invited to join the Cowboy Artists of America. Roy’s original paintings are displayed in museums and private collections including The Museum of Flight – Kenneth H. Dahlberg Center for Military Aviation History, Seattle, WA; CAF Airpower Museum – Roy Grinnell Art Gallery, Midland, TX; The George Lucas Collection, The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation; National Museum of the US Air Force – The National Aviation Hall of Fame, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, FL where Roy was the proud recipient of the R. Smith Award for Excellence in Naval Aviation Art in 1999; The Pearce Museum at Navarro College, Corsicana, TX; Normandie-Niemen Memorial Museum, Les Andelys, France; Polish Military Museum, Warsaw, Poland; Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, Pueblo, CO; Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA; Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum, Cheyenne, WY; Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, NM and others. “First Blood” Roy Grinnell Signed & Numbered Limited Edition Print Co-signed by Flying Tiger Ace David Lee “Tex” Hill. Part of American Fighter Aces Series. Four shark-nosed P40 Tomahawks of the 2nd Pursuit Squadron, AVG, took off from Rangoon’s Mingaladon Aerodrome in the crisp pre-dawn of 3 January, 1942. One turned back for engine trouble, leaving three to continue to their target, Raheng Aerodrome, a Japanese-held airfield outside of Tak, in northwestern Thailand. Squadron Leader Jack Newkirk led the formation, with David L. “Tex” Hill flying Jim Howard’s wing. As they approached the Japanese airfield from the southeast, they observed several I-96 and I-97 fighters on the ground warming up for takeoff, with more circling the field at 2,000 feet. With the sun at their backs, Newkirk peeled off in a 250-mph dive as Howard and Hill followed in string. As “Tex” Hill described it: The first thing I noticed when we broke into string to strafe the field, there were more than three airplanes in our pattern. A Jap fighter got on Howard’s tail and I pulled up behind the fighter and kinda hosed him down. At the same time a Jap made an overhead pass on me and shot 33 holes in my airplane. I pulled up sharply to the left into two Japs and was in a position for a head-on pass. I squeezed the trigger and he blew up. The victories were Hill’s first two of a string of 12 ΒΌ with the AVG, making him the second-highest scoring ace in the Flying Tigers. All Limited Edition prints are signed and numbered (S/N) by the artist and include a Certificate of Authenticity. Limited Edition prints are restricted to a certain number. For example, if 400 prints are made from an original painting, once theyre gone, thats it. There is no limit to the number of open edition prints of a particular painting. Thats why Limited Edition prints are more expensive and more valuable to collectors than “open” edition. Rare objects are more valuable. The term “giclee” denotes an elevation in printmaking technology. Images are generated from high resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto various substrates including canvas, fine art, and photo-base paper. The giclee printing process provides better color accuracy than other means of reproduction. The quality of the giclee print rivals traditional silver-halide and gelatin printing processes and is commonly found in museums, art galleries, and photographic galleries. All Limited Edition artwork is subject to availability at time of order. The item “First Blood Roy Grinnell Print co-signed by Flying Tiger Ace David Tex Hill” is in sale since Wednesday, July 10, 2013. This item is in the category “Art\Art Prints”. The seller is “airplanesandmore” and is located in Flower Mound, Texas. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Original/Reproduction: Original Print
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Edition Type: Limited Edition
- Edition Size: 1250
- Print Type: Lithograph
- Subject: WW II Flying Tiger Ace David “Tex” Hill
- Style: Realism
- Size Type/Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30″)
- Signed?: Signed