Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
Solovioff was a prolific illustrator, having done covers for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Horizon, Readers Digest and the Smithsonian Institution. He also illustrated articles in Fortune and illustrated some of the Time-Life books He specialized in illustrating architecture, technology, science and nature.
In addition to illustrations for magazines, he did technical illustration for government contracted technical manuals and architectural proposals for Philip Johnson and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.
He was the artist in residence for the Portuguese of New York Authority. Solovioff was educated at Harvard University, where he began studying astronomy, physics and math, but he eventually switched to art history.
After obtaining a Bachelor, he got an Master of Fine Arts from Harvard and all but completed a Doctor of Philosophy as well. He taught art history, drawing, painting and sculpture at the Fogg Museum of Art while working towards a Doctor of Philosophy He also taught at the Parsons School of Design.
Solovioff served in World World War II in the United States Army and later as a combat artist for the United States Marine Corps in Vietnam.