Artist for Billy Graham
Fascinating Art Assignments From the Great
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1961 I went to work for The Reverend Billy Graham at his headquarters
in Minneapolis. At that time, his ministry was rapidly expanding
all over the world. There was no end of fascinating assignments.
The Graham film studio in California regularly produced feature
films to be shown in churches. My jobs included painting "storyboards"
for films in the planning stages, and poster illustrations for the
films that were being released, For the monthly magazine Decision,
I painted Biblical illustrations. It was exciting to a young artist
to be involved in such a past-paced and far-flung enterprise. I
was 26 when I joined the Graham organization. I stayed for nine
years.
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Chapel Painting,
"Christ In the Garden"
The painting visible
in the background of this photo was painted to decorate a small
prayer chapel in the Graham headquarters building. A very effective
sound-and-light program was worked out involving this painting,
as an attraction for the many visitors who came through. |
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Crucifixion
Scene from "Man in the Fifth Dimension"
This film was shown at
the New York World's Fair in 1964 and 65. To prepare for this
painting, we had an actual cross constructed. Then a model posed
on the cross on a huge freight elevator, which was lowered to
the right height for our reference photos. My models were all
blonde Scandinavians from Minneapolis. |
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Advertising Poster
for Film, "The Restless Ones" |
| Easter Illustration for Decision
Magazine |
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