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The Artist & The Art

Homefront Aviation Art features the realistic and warmhearted approach to aviation art by Stan Vosburg. His paintings, narratives, and historical fidelity provide a window for observing aviation's most exciting era, the 1940s. They portray a nostalgic look at the individuals and the aircraft they manufactured on the home front during World War II.

Stanley was born in Richmond, California on December 7, 1942. His childhood years were spent with his mother and two younger brothers living in the copper mining town of Miami, Arizona on the outskirts of Phoenix. In 1955 Stan's mother, Violet moved with her sons to Anaheim, California to begin their new adventure. Stan attended Fremont Junior High School, Anaheim Union High School, briefly at Fullerton College with thoughts of pursuing a career in military aviation, and later, California Polytechnic University Pomona where he would earn his Mathematics degree in 1966.

In the years prior to attending Cal Poly, Stan met Cheryl at Bethel Baptist Church of Anaheim. While on a college retreat at Forest Home in spring of 1962 he accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior. In 1964 Stan and Cheryl were married at Bethel Baptist Church, and would raise their three children in Orange, California. In years following, Stan and Cheryl would participate in planting Sunkist Baptist Church of Anaheim. At Sunkist their lives centered on the social and spiritual life of the church, and Stan would go on to serve as Sunday School teacher, church secretary, deacon, chairman of the board of elders, and chairman of the Christian Education board. In 1996 God called Stan and Cheryl to Calvary Church of Santa Ana where they continued to serve as Bible study leaders. Stan also served as a Sunday Morning LifeGroup substitute teacher.

Stan's affinity for science, engineering, and aviation afforded him career opportunities to work on many projects, beginning in 1966 at Northrop as a stress engineer on the Hawk Missile System. He would assume responsibilities on other significant projects, like the Thermal Protection System tiles for the Space Shuttle Program, the B-1 Bomber, and US Army Radar systems. These same passions guided him into painting as a hobby, which would eventually lead him to paint his famous "Balboa Rendezvous" artwork and several others including "Impressing The Night Shift," which was performed live at the 1999 Laguna Beach Pageant of the Masters. Stan retired from his engineering career in the Aerospace/Defense industry in 2005.

Stan enjoyed other interests and hobbies, such as studying Scripture, aviation history, plastic model aircraft building, radio-controlled model airplane flying, astronomy, Creation Science and Geology, traveling, and sipping coffee at the Orange Plaza with a crew of fellow retirees known as The Bloviators. On the evening of Friday, April 22, 2022, Stan took his final flight to meet his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in glory.