Millsap, Darrel
Darrel Wayne 'Bunky' Millsap (May 9, 1931 - April 11, 2012) was an American artist. Born in Ontario, California, Millsap began showing artistic talent early, drawing portraits and pictures of animals on paper and brown bags he found in his childhood home. He served in the U.S. Navy and was honorably discharged in 1953. After being discharged, he enrolled at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and graduated in 1956 with a degree in Commercial Illustration. After graduating, Millsap began his career at Fred Kopp Studios in Los Angeles working for Hector Huerta. Only a few years later, Millsap moved to San Diego and found work with Frye and Smith. He soon opted to start his own firm with Robert Kinyon called Millsap/Kinyon Illustration. Millsap and Kinyon worked together until Kinyon died of cancer. After Kinyon's death, Millsap worked alone under the name Darrel Millsap Illustration until he retired in 1999. Millsap suffered a stroke a few years before his death and died in 2012 of complications arising from the stroke as well as diabetes and Parkinson's disease. Over the course of his career as an artist, Millsap created maps as advertisements for banks, including several of California, one of Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin, and one of Oahu. Millsap married his wife Janice in 1959 and had three children.
Triumph of Fillmore Style!
This is a 1972 Darrel Millsap pictorial calendar map of San Diego, California. It is one in a series of Millsap maps in the Fillmore style commissioned by Home Federal Bank. Fillmore design was pioneered by promoters of The Fillmore, a legendary 1960s-70s San Francisco music venue. (more details)
Fillmore Style: Yosemite to Candlestick Park.
This is a 1973 Darrel Millsap pictorial map of California. This is one of only few maps in the Fillmore style of design, pioneered by promotors of The Fillmore, a legendary 1960s-70s San Francisco music venue. The map is one of a series commissioned by the Home Federal Bank. (more details)
Celebrating California history.
This is a 1973 Darrel Millsap pictorial map of California highlighting historical events. (more details)
Oahu, Fillmore style.
This is a c. 1973 Darrel Millsap pictorial map of Oahu, Hawaii, issued to promote Pioneer Federal. This is one of only a few maps in the Fillmore style, pioneered by promoters of The Fillmore, a legendary 1960s-70s San Francisco music venue. The map is one of a series of maps of Hawaii commissioned by Pioneer Federal Savings and Loan, with 3 others created by Dawson (The Big Island, Kauai, and Maui) in the Millsap style. (more details)
Environmental Movement - Earth Day.
This is the c. 1970 original art for Darrel Millsap's unpublished illustration of the global fossil fuel industry. The image is a harsh criticism of global waste and energy consumption, issued at the beginning of the U.S. environmentalism movement, most likely associated with the 1970 launch of Earth Day. (more details)