Tim O’Brien

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tim O'Brien
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Nov 16, 1964(1964-11-16)
Age	60
Birthplace	New Haven
Country	United States
Birth City	New Haven
Horoscope	Capricorn

Tim O'Brien Biography

Tim O'Brien is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on November 16, 1964 in New Haven, New Haven, United States. Tim O’Brien (born November 16, 1964) is an American artist who works in a realistic style.

Arthur Hockstein, art director at Time Magazine from 1994 through 2009 said of O’Brien that the magazine staff was amazed at the intricacy and draftsmanship of O’Brien’s work, delivered under such short deadlines. Robert Newman, former Design Director at Entertainment Weekly recounted the paintings still being wet, delivered in specially constructed boxes containing the art by O’Brien and the smell of oil paint filling the room as the work was opened just before deadline.

Up until 2004, O’Brien stayed active in the boxing world of his youth as a trainer. Since 2006 O’Brien has run the New York City Marathon, raising money for The Children’s IBD Center at Mount Sinai Hospital.

O’Brien’s work first appeared on U.S. postage stamps in 2006. The artist was commissioned to portray Hattie McDaniel as part of the U.S. Postal Services Black Heritage stamp series. The choice of the actress to be featured in this series of stamps which had included prominent figures in civil rights history such as Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King, Jr caused some to voice concerns The U.S. Postal Service defended their decision by noting that the actress was the first African American to Win an Academy Award as well as a being an influential civil rights advocate during the 1940s.

Starting in 1989, O’Brien worked with art director, Arthur Hochstein, and created over a dozen covers for Time with him. Other art directors at Time that the artist has worked closely with are Joe Zeff and D.W. Pine.

Tim O'Brien Net Worth

Tim O'Brien is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tim O'Brien 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Before graduation from Paier in 1987, O’Brien entered into what became a long relationship with the artists’ representative Peter Lott. Lott had seen O’Brien’s work at the Society of Illustrators Student Show.

He went on to graduate in 1987 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. His instructors at Paier included Leonard Everett Fisher, Ken Davies and Robert Zappalorti. While attending Paier, the young artist painted trompe l’oeil images for fun, which his instructors Ken Davies and Robert Zappalorti were also known to do, in which the viewer of the paintings are deceived into thinking they were seeing an actual object. In one such case, students attempted to use electrical outlets that O’Brien had painted on the wall.

In an interview conducted by The Illustrators Guild of Ireland in 2002, O’Brien described his style by saying, “My description is conceptual realism with a leaning toward the slightly idealized.”

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Who is Tim O'Brien Dating?

According to our records, Tim O'Brien married to Meredith Baker (m. 2001). As of December 1, 2023, Tim O'Brien’s is not dating anyone.

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For the December 2012 release, the magazine printed double covers, in which one cover was sent to subscribers of the magazine and the alternate cover was shown on newsstands. O’Brien illustrated both covers, and in very different stylistic ways. For the cover that went to newsstands, titled Sugar Kills, the artist created a surreal vignette of a glass pitcher as a human skull, and for the version delivered to subscribers, titled Solitary in Iran, O’Brien painted a lonely jail cell with a single occupant. That both covers were illustrated by O’Brien was more by chance than design. The Mother Jones creative director Tim J. Luddy first completed conceptual sketches for both covers and after doing so, decided O’Brien was the best choice for both.

Facts & Trivia

Tim Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tim O'Brien celebrates birthday on November 16 of every year.

On April 26, 2016 O’Brien spoke at the United Nations in New York City at the invitation of The World Intellectual Property Organization, during which the artist’s work were shown. He discussed commercial art and intellectual property rights in a digital world and how technology is having both advantageous and troubling consequences on both.

Why was Tim O'Brien against the Vietnam War?

Tim O’Brien was a part of the opposition group due to his belief that the war was pointless unless it meant something or if it was for a greater cause. There were many who saw the war from his point of view and fled and then there were others who tried to justify the war and convince him.

What does Tim O'Brien say about the Vietnam War?

Tim O’Brien On Late-In-Life Fatherhood And The Things He Carried From Vietnam. Tim O’Brien was a foot soldier during the Vietnam War. “The problem for me really is that I questioned the rectitude of the war,” he says. “I thought I was doing the wrong thing by being there.”

Does Tim O'Brien have a daughter?

I don’t have a daughter. I don’t have children. To my knowledge, at least, I never killed anyone. Jimmy Cross never visited me at my house in Massachusetts, because of course Jimmy Cross does not exist in the world of objects, and never did.

Is The Things They Carried a true story?

By establishing that the novel is a “work of fiction” as he notes on the title page of the story, Tim O’Brien clearly wants readers to understand that while the book may be inspired by his experiences in Vietnam, it is not a memoir of his time there. Many events in the novel did not really happen.

What was O'Brien most afraid of when he went to war?

He states that he fears the war but fears exile and all that it means to him, his family and his community.