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Alan Bean |
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Yes as of 5/21/2012
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Available
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New Unframed Art |
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Limited Edition |
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Limited Edition of 244 |
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22x 16 1/2 |
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$295.00
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| Is Anyone Out There LIMITED EDITION PRINT |
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'Since we first walked erect, it has been a conviction of mankind that in some fashion, someone, something, has inhabited the heavens. The Space Race itself was as political as it was strategic, yet at its soul, what captured the hearts and minds of the world at large was the possibility of coming one step closer to answering the question stirring within us all for millenniaIs anyone out there?
40 years ago, on November, 14, 1969, Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean, with fellow Apollo 12 astronauts, Commander CharlesPete Conrad and Command Module Pilot Richard Gordon, left Earth for the Moon. Five days later on Nov. 19th, Bean stepped off the lunar module Intrepid and onto the Moon’s Ocean of Storms and became the fourth human to walk on another planet. Yet for all the training, for all the data, for all the simulations and discipline, one of the simplest and most human of questions came to his mind,Is anyone out there?
We did send an artist to the Moon and it is no small matter of pride that we are able to call him a member of The Greenwich WorkshopFamily of Artists. Alan Bean paints the Apollo missions from a perspective no other can: as one who has been there. His paintings were on display in a one-man exhibition at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.Is Anyone Out There? was a center piece of the exhibit and perhaps its most commented upon painting. We selected it to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Alan Bean’s lunar flight because it epitomizes that simple thought that took man to the Moon,Is there anybody out there?.
At 40 x 30, the commemorative MasterWork™ Fine Art Giclee Canvas is the largest reproduction we have offered of Alan Bean’s artwork. It is set at an edition of 69 to commemorate the year he set foot on the Moon. A Fine Art Paper Giclée edition is set at 244 pieces, the duration, in hours, of the Apollo 12 mission from lift-off to landing. Both editions are personally signed by astronaut, moonwalker and the first artist on another world, Captain Alan Bean.
Too often, the opportunity to possess a piece of history passes us by. Going to the Moon will stand as one of mankind’s greatest accomplishments: that first giant step into the heavens. Twelve men have gazed back the quarter-million miles to the Earth from the surface of Moon. And only Alan Bean, through his paintings of the Apollo program, can place us there beside him.
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| Artist Bio: BIOGRAPHY
"Twelve people have walked on the moon. Only one was an explorer artist, Alan
Bean—Apollo XII astronaut, commander of Skylab II and artist. Born in 1932 in
Wheeler, Texas and in 1950, Alan was selected for an NROTC scholarship at the
University of Texas at Austin. Alan was commissioned an ensign in the United
States Navy in 1955. Holder of eleven world records in space and astronautics,
Alan Bean has had a most distinguished peacetime career. His awards include
two NASA Distinguished Service Medals, the Yuri Gagarin Gold Medal and the
Robert J. Collier Trophy. As part of the Apollo XII crew, he became the fourth
of only twelve men ever to walk on the Moon. As the spacecraft commander of
Skylab Mission II, he set a world record: 24,400,000 miles traveled during the
59-day flight.
When he wasn’t flying, Bean always enjoyed painting as a hobby. Attending
night classes at St. Mary’s College in Maryland in 1962, Alan experimented
with landscapes. During training and between missions as a test pilot and
astronaut, he continued private art lessons. On space voyages, his artist’s
eye and talent enabled him to document impressions of the Moon and space to be
preserved later on canvas. A voracious student, Alan began to immerse himself
in polishing his talent with the same intensity he gave to his astronaut
training. Inspired by the impressionists and studying under contemporary
masters, he is a first-rate artist who is as comfortable rendering sharp
realism as he is with portraying subtle emotions through a faceless spacesuit—
but there's a bonus: As the only artist who has visited another world, Bean
paints with an authenticity and insight completely unique in the entire
history of art by creating a palette mirroring his artistic eye. His is a
personal portfolio of the golden era of space exploration as viewed by the
only artist who has BEEN there. His art reflects the attention to detail of
the aeronautical engineer, the respect for the unknown of the astronaut and
the unabashed appreciation of a skilled explorer artist.
The space program has seen unprecedented achievements and Bean realized that
most of those who participated actively in this adventure would be gone in
forty years. He knew that if any credible artistic impressions were to remain
for future generations, he must paint them now. “My decision to resign from
NASA in 1981 was based on the fact that I am fortunate enough to have seen
sights no other artist ever has,” Bean said, “and I hope to communicate these
experiences through art.” He is pursuing this dream at his home and studio in
Houston.
Bean’s book, Apollo: An Eyewitness Account, which chronicles his first-person
experience as an Apollo astronaut and explorer artist in words and paintings,
was received with critical and popular acclaim upon its publication in 1998.
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