"Global Workhorse" - Keith Ferris - C-17 Globemaster III Art

Keith Ferris, the son of a career Air Force Officer who served from 1925-1955 is a freelance aviation artist who has been serving the advertising, editorial, public relations and historical documentation needs of airframe, engine and avionics manufacturers and their advertising agencies, aviation trade publications, aviation museums and the military for 50 years.

Active in the Air Force Art Program for 37 years, Mr. Ferris has 52 major paintings in the Air Force Art Collection. He has traveled worldwide with the Air Force, flown in and documented the missions of most all jet aircraft types in the inventory. He is a life member of the Society of Illustrators, and a founding member and past president of the American Society of Aviation Artists.

He has had one man exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the Society of Illustrators in New York City, the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO the C.R. Smith Museum, Cavanaugh Museum, and Simuflite Training International, in Fort Worth, TX and the Aerospace Education Center in Little Rock, AR. In addition, there have been numerous exhibitions in art galleries throughout the country.

He is best known for his two large 75 foot murals "Fortresses Under Fire" and "The Evolution of Jet Aviation" at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

He was elected a member of the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey and has received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Daniel Webster College for his service to aviation. Keith has also been selected as an honorary member of many military units including the U.S. Air Force Thunderbird Flight Demonstration Team and the Order of Daedalians, the national fraternity of military pilots. He received the Air Force Association's Citation of Honor in 1978 for his art and it's Special Award in 1985 for his lifetime of documentation of Air Force History.

Keith's painting "Real Trouble" was selected Best In Show at the annual ASAA Exhibition in Dayton, Ohio in 1995 and "First Trap" won the same award in 1996 in Pensacola, FL.

Keith Ferris Signed Open Edition Print "Global Workhorse"

McDonnell Douglas C-17 Globemaster III 90-0535 climbs away from the former MiG training base at Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzogovina, after delivering another load of vital equipment, supplies and vehicles to our Operation Joint Endeavor peace keeping troops. Beginning operations from Rhein Main Air Base, Germany in December 1995, the C-17 was the only U.S. airlifter capable of carrying outsize equipment and cargo as well as passengers into the limited facilities at Tuzla, the main staging area for the U.S. peace keeping force. The artist was privileged to participate in nine missions, involving eighteen sorties into Tuzla and Sarajevo in eight days during January 1996. He was impressed with the C-17s ability to carry huge loads into the most difficult areas, in the unforgiving weather, and do so with better than a 95 percent departure reliability rate.

This 26" by 13" image size print is an "Open" Edition Print and is signed by the artist.

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