Melinda Bordelon

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Melinda Bordelon
Born
Melinda Jane Bordelon

6 March 1949
Died18 November 1995
NationalityAmerican
EducationTexas Christian University
Known forIllustration, painting

Melinda Jane Bordelon (March 6, 1949 – November 18, 1995[

advertisements—as well as album covers, book covers, and video game packaging—produced from the early 1970s through the 1990s. Her principal art media were acrylic paint and ink
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Early life and education

Melinda Jane Bordelon was the daughter of Dr. Howard M. Bordelon (a urologist) and Mary Jane Peters Bordelon, of Amarillo, Texas.[1] Interested in art from an early age, she was a third-prize winner in a newspaper coloring contest when she was 12 years old.[2] She attended Tascosa High School[3] before enrolling at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, where she studied illustration under Don Ivan Punchatz.[4]

Career

Shortly after Bordelon relocated from Texas to Cornwall, New York in the early 1970s, the weekly magazine New York commissioned her to contribute a painting to a collection illustrating dramatic scenes from the Watergate scandal. She was one of the few artists selected who had never worked with the magazine before.[5] Within a year, through her work for various magazines, Bordelon became a highly sought-after illustrator in American media.[citation needed]

Among her magazine cover illustrations were the June 1974 issue of

Playboy.[13]

The Society of Illustrators recognized Bordelon for her illustration work on three occasions between 1974 and 1977. The Society first awarded her for the cover of the 1974 Brownsville Station album School Punks, which she illustrated by commission of Atlantic Records. In the spring of 1975, the Society exhibited this album art, among others, at Illustrators XVII, the 17th such exhibition at their contemporary art gallery in New York.[14] In addition, they subsequently exhibited her work at Illustrators XVIII (1976) and Illustrators XIX (1977).[citation needed]

In the mid-1990s, Bordelon also provided illustrations and creative input for some Origin Systems video games.[15][16]

In her later years, Melinda Bordelon lived in Austin, Texas and took up photography.[17]

References

  1. Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  2. . Retrieved 23 April 2011.
  3. . Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  4. ^ "Food". National Lampoon. 1 (51: Food). June 1974.
  5. ISSN 0014-0791
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  7. ^ Sussman, Gerald (November 1973). "Paper Fan". National Lampoon. 1 (44: Sports).
  8. ^ Miller, Chris (July 1974). "A Thanksgiving Memory". National Lampoon. 1 (52: Dessert).
  9. ^ Miller, Chris (October 1974). "The Night of the Seven Fires". National Lampoon. 1 (55: Pubescence).
  10. Playboy Enterprises
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  11. ISSN 0032-1478
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  12. . Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  13. ^ Origin Systems (February 1994). Privateer: Righteous Fire (DOS). Origin Systems.
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  15. ^ Laguna Gloria Art Museum, "New works by Austin photographers / Melinda Bordelon, Dennis Carlyle Darling, Lawrence McFarland, Casey Williams" exhibition catalog (March 7-April 26, 1987).

Further reading

  • National Lampoon Art Poster Book. Foreword by Matty Smith.
    OCLC 2048397.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link
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