BORN: Denver, Colorado
EDUCATION: Wichita State University 44-45,46-49 Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA 50-52 BPA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA Art Students League, New York, New York Famous Artists Schools
PUBLICATIONS: FAMOUS ARTIST SCHOOL ILLUSTRATORS IN AMERICA
1900-1960's by Walter Reed THE GREAT ILLUSTRATORS by Walter Reed
AWARDS: AWARDS FROM THE SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS New York,
New York Since 1959 to the present over 100 awards including: HAMILTON KING
AWARD HALL OF FAME GOLD MEDALS SILVER MEDALS
ARTIST OF THE YEAR 1961 by THE ARTIST GUILD OF NEW YORK Robert Peak
has won over 150 awards from the following organizations: Art Directors Club of
New York, Art Directors Annual, Communication Arts, Art Directors Club of
Philadelphia, Art Directors Club of Chicago, Advertising Club of Boston, Art Directors
Club of Denver, Motion Picture Advertising Exhibition, Printing Industries of
Metropolitan New York Inc., The Hollywood Reporter Advertising Club of New York.
SHOWS: Utah State University, Wichita State University, New York Historical Society,
Brooklyn Museum, The Greenwich Workshop Gallery, National Art Museum of Sport,
Westport Artists, New York Auto Show 1969, Carson Gallery, Denver, Colorado,
O'Grady Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, Smithsonian Institute, National Portarait Gallery,
Washington, Me Culley Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
ONE MAN SHOWS: Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, California Art
Students League, New York, New York Society of Illustrators, New York, New York,
Oklahoma Christian College, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Ringling Museum of Art,
Sarasota, Florida, O'Grady Galleries, Chicago, Illinois: People, Places and Things, April
1978 The Academy of Art College, San Francisco, California
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: AMERICAN EXPRESS, New York, New York
SPECIAL OLYMPICS, Washington, DC, PLAYBOY, PHILLIP MORRIS, New York,
New York 20™ CENTURY FOX, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE, PORTRAIT
GALLERY, Washington, DC, AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SPORT, New York,
New York ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCE, Beverly Hills,
California, SOUTHSTREET SEAPORT MUSEUM, New York, New York WICHITA
STATE UNIVERSITY, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED TIME-LIFE INC. CASHCO
ENERGY CORPORATION, E.G. Cashman, Houston, Texas BRIAN CLINTON AND
ASSOCIATES, Melbourne, Australia TWA
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: On Safari with the Shah of
Iran, hunting Ibex, 1964 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: Grand Prix tour with Jackie Stewart,
1967 FORD MOTOR COMPANY: Car Design 1968-1970 SPECIAL OLYMPICS: 15th
Anniversary of the Special Olympics. Eunice Kennedy Shriver and the Special Olympic
Committee commissioned six paintings on "The Spirit of Sports", The imagery of the
paintings was the artist's interpretation of quotation from six famous athletes: Frank
Gifford, Chris Evert Lloyd, Joe DiMaggio, Jack Nicklaus, Pele, and Wilt Chamberlain.
1982-1983 UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE: The largest commission ever given to an individual artist: designed 30 stamps for the 1984 Olympics. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE: Commissioned to paint 31 watercolors depicting various sport events in the history of the Olympics, for the book entitled GOLDEN MOMENTS published by the United States government.