Gil Cohen

Gil Cohen (born July 28, 1931) 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.

Biography Gilbert B. Cohen was born to Philip and Hannah (née Borofsky) Cohen on July 28, 1931, and raised in Philadelphia, where his Russian-immigrant grandparents and father operated a hardware store. He trained as an illustrator at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, where he studied under artists Karl Sherman, Henry C. Pitz, Albert Gold, Joe Krush and S. Gertrude Schell, and then graduated in 1953. Soon thereafter, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and assigned to a military intelligence unit in Germany where he rendered images of Soviet weaponry, based on verbal espionage reports. Upon his release from the army, he resumed his chosen career in commercial art and illustration.

As of 2017, Cohen maintained a studio at his home in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

In 1997, he began publishing limited-edition prints of his aviation art,

A retrospective of Cohen's aviation art was published in 2009.

He traveled under the auspices of the U.S. Air Force to theaters of conflict in Bosnia, Somalia, and Central Asia and also to Israel to create paintings that he donated to the U.S. Air Force Art Program.

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. U.S. Coast Guard Art Program

He received recognition for his work that included:

American Society of Aviation Artists: "Best of Show" (twice), “Award of Distinction” (four times) "Honorable Mention" Central Bucks County Chamber of Commerce: "Lifetime Achievement—Bucks County Arts" and "Lifetime Achievement Award in Art"

Gallery of illustration art