AIR COMBAT PAINTINGS VOLUME II – Softcover

Description

Robert Taylor is widely regarded as the world’s foremost aviation artist. His first book, THE AIR COMBAT PAINTINGS OF ROBERT TAYLOR, published in 1987, became an instant best-seller and has since sold more copies than any aviation art book ever published:

In this this Volume II , Robert Taylor takes readers behind the scenes and discusses events leading up to each of 24 major paintings, providing a fascinating insight into how one of  the world’s most popular aviation artist prepares, researches and creates his masterpieces.

Top fighter Aces, themselves fans of Robert’s paintings, also contribute features for the book: The foreword is by Peter Townsend, and there are fascinating notes on flying various WW2 fighters in combat from Gunther Rall (Me109), Hub Zemke (P-47), Dick Best (SBD Dauntless), James Goodson (P-51) and Alan Deere (Spitfire). This book provides a truly fascinating and carefully researched insight into the world’s most widely collected painter of historical aviation subjects.

The original hardcover “coffee table” book was released in 1991 and has been unavaivle for many years. In 2002 a small number of these softcover versions were released, including all the same content of the original book.