Barron Storey has been a commercial illustrator since the 1960s, and his clients have included major magazines such as "Boys' Life", "Reader's Digest", and "National Geographic". His cover portraits for "Time" of Howard Hughes and Yitzhak Rabin hang in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. His giant painting of the South American rain forest hangs in New York's American Museum of Natural History, and a 1979 rendering of the space shuttle commissioned by NASA, the first official painting ever done of it, hangs in the Air and Space Museum on the National Mall.