Craig Kodera
"Aviation is this artist's living. Painting is a joy and a choice; not his career. Craig Kodera's career is as an airline pilot, so each of his paintings reflect an intimate knowledge of how it feels to fly and what it looks like out the cockpit. ""I paint what I see,"" he says,""and my office window is at 35,000 feet.""
An appreciation of aviation came easy, since Kodera was raised in what he terms an ""aviation family,"" which included an uncle who flew with the famous Doolittle Raiders during World War II. At an age when most teens were trying to ace the driver’s test, Kodera had earned his private pilot’s license. A love of painting also came early. Kodera started seriously studying it at fourteen. He graduated from UCLA with a degree in mass communications and spent a year as a commercial artist before joining the Air Force Reserve, where he was assigned to the Air Rescue Service and then the Strategic Air Command. There his knowledge of air war history grew while he logged literally thousands of hours flying.
Eventually Kodera left the service and joined American Airlines. When he isn’t flying, he’s usually painting. His artwork is part of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum permanent collection and hangs in many museums. He is also the charter vice president of the American Society of Aviation Artists, a member of the Air Force Art Program and serves with the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators."
This print honors Boeing's B-47 and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Strategic Art Command. General Paul W. Tibbets, famed-pilot of "Red Gremlin" and "Enola Gay", served as project officer and Air Force test pilot for the B-47. The insignia of the Strategic Air Command appears in the margin of the print.
This 23" by 17-1/2 " Limited Edition Print, edition size 1000, is signed by the artist and co-signed by Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets, the famed pilot of the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan.
All Limited Edition prints are signed and numbered (S/N) by the artist. Limited Edition prints are 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.
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