Pan American World Airways used McCoy’s watercolors on menus, prints, advertisements, postcards, and other promotional items. Check out more than eighty of these objects here: https://t.co/9V9LUO4Gd9
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In 1962, Pan American World Airways commissioned McCoy to produced eight paintings depicting “Historical First Flights of Pan American Clippers.” Later #PanAm commissioned additional works that included aircraft from its fleet of jet clippers. #AvGeek#Watercolors#JohnTMcCoyThis tweet was posted on December 14, 2022.
John T. McCoy, aeronautical artist and historian, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1909. McCoy began his painting career in the early 1930s, painting portraits of private airplanes to finance his flying lessons. #AvGeek#Watercolors#JohnTMcCoyThis tweet was posted on December 14, 2022.