Boris Vallejo (born January 8, 1941) is an American painter born in Peru. Who immigrated to the United States in 1964, and resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He frequently works with his wife Julie Bell, painter (in her own right) and model. Vallejo works exclusively in the fantasy and erotica genres. His hyper-representational paintings have graced the covers of dozens of science fiction paperbacks and are featured in a series of glossy best-selling calendars. Subjects of his paintings are typically monsters engaged in battle well-muscled male and female barbarians.
Some of his male figures were modeled by Vallejo himself, and many of his female characters were modeled by
his wife. His latest works still retain heavy fantasy elements, but lean more
towards the erotic rather
than pure fantasy themes.
Vallejo commenced painting at the age of thirteen
and had his first illustration job at the age of
sixteen. After immigrating to the United States in 1964, he quickly
garnered a fan following from
his illustrations of Conan the Barbarian, Doc Savage and
various other fantasy characters.
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