More About the Author
EP Slick - Tucson
Born in New York, February 1945. Self taught painter and metalworker. Annually travels to Europe or the South Pacific in search for old airfields, naval sites and painting reference. Especially interested in the factories and personnel that built and maintained wartime aircraft. Also quite focused on the London Blitz and zeitgeist of the war years in England.
Website - Google: Eldon P Slick Artwork
The RAT KILLER is his first novel. Additionally just completed writing FREEDMAN'S FATE? an historically based novel about S/Sgt Leon Freedman, tail gunner in B17 42-37920, which was shot down over the Baltic on April 11, 1944. Freedman was placed in Stalag Luft One, later escaped and was eventually murdered at Oradour on June 10, 1944.
His artwork has been commissioned by:
City of Pomona New York
Port of San Diego CA
City of Troy Ohio
University of Indianapolis
Indianapolis Art Center
CAE Simuflite Dallas Texas
Lord Hayward Estate - Devon
Amsterdam City Parks
The United States National Museum of Naval Aviation
The United States National Air Force Museum
The USS Intrepid
The Pentagon
Gold Award - New York Society of Illustrators
CAE Juried 2007 exhibit - Best of Show
United States National Museum of Naval Aviation NAS Pensacola 2nd place 2006, 3rd place 2004
San Diego Fine Arts Guild - Best of Show
One man show, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art
Fellow: American Society of Aviation Artists
Some Recent Museum and Gallery Exhibition History
San Diego Aerospace Museum 2010 ASAA Juried exhibit Baltimore - Washington Intl. Airport ASAA annual juried show 2007
United States National Museum of Naval Aviation - 2002 through 2010 exhibitor
United States National Air Force Museum, Dayton, OH 2004 and 2006
Centennial of Powered Flight 100th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
Centennial of Naval Aviation 100th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum, Savannah GA, 2005
Hill National Aerospace Museum, Hill FAB Salt Lake City UT 2004
Images of San Xavier
Illustrations published by:
Psychology Today Magazine, McGraw Hill Books, Random House, Playboy Magazine, Saturday Review Magazine, Nursing Magazine, Aviation Week and Space Review magazine, Wildlife Education, The New Yorker, Graphis, ZOOBOOKS and CA magazine among others