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Chris Calle

Biography

The son of artist Paul Calle.Chris Calle, a graduate of the University of Michigan's School of Art, began his career as an illustrator and designed more than 35 postage stamps for the United States. He has created more than 200 stamps for the United Nations program. In 1989, on the 20th anniversary of the moon walk, the USPS asked Chris Calle to design an anniversary stamp. Together with his son Chris, Paul Calle returned to the subject of space exploration with a pair of stamps issued in 1994 in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and the first manned moon landing. In the movie "First Man" starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Calle played his famed illustrator father. Much of Chris' artwork is related to the theme of Space Exploration. As an official NASA artist, he covered two of the early Space Shuttle missions, producing artwork that is now in the collections of the National Air and Space Museum and NASA. His outstanding work also appears in many publications and is represented in corporate, private, and museum collections throughout the world.

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