You will find Robert McCall’s views of space — past, present, and future — spanning the entry hall of the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum (where his vast mural depicting man's conquest of the Moon covers an entire wall on the Museum's main floor), at the Horizons pavilion at Disney’s EPCOT center, in old movie posters for 2001: A Space Odyssey, and in a two-decade-long series of postage stamps depicting space themes. An art school graduate from Columbus, Ohio, with a lifelong fascination of things that fly, McCall has illustrated the reality and the dreams of the space age since it all began in the 1950s.

Prominently displayed outside the NASA Administrator's door is a McCall "Mars-scape" depicting astronauts at work on the red planet. It is vintage McCall. The machinery is intriguing and detailed, the spacefarers seems as if they are part of a heraldic pageant (as a boy, he had fascination with drawing knights in shining armor), and the terrain is rugged and sweeping.

The mountains are reminiscent of the range that lies outside McCall’s picture window in his studio at his home in Arizona. Pass through the antique Mexican doors into the courtyard of McCall’s home and the other artist in residence will greet you: Bob’s wife of more than 50 years, Louise.

The collaboration they are most proud of is at their church (Valley Presbyterian), where they designed the stained-glass windows. With a rising sun, a constellation of stars, and planets and heavenly symbolism wrapping around above, the McCalls’ beautiful glass tells a story of faith, hope, and optimism.

In 2007, McCall donated more than 200 of his art works to the University of Arizona Museum of Art.