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Alan Bean
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A Fire to be Lighted
LIMITED EDITION CANVAS
Image size:
18"w x 27"h.
Edition Size:100
Image size:
18"w x 27"h.
Edition Size:100
$
650.00
“The Falcon is on the Plain at Hadley.” These were the first words heard back on Earth when Dave Scott and Jim Irwin made their landing in July 1971. Falcon had alighted them on a scientific bonanza.As Dave looked around from Falcon’s overhead hatch, he thought, “No place on Earth has such a concentration of features.”There were mountains taller than Everest (relative to their surroundings) and a meandering gorge a mile across, a thousand feet deep and seventy miles long.
Lunar exploration had come a long way since Neil and Buzz made their first moonwalk just two years earlier. Dave and Jim had the lunar rover, a moon car that would make possible five times the total
surface exploration of the three previous missions combined; and they had improved space suit backpacks which allowed them to stay outside their spacecraft nearly twice as long as any of us who had flown earlier.
I have painted Dave Scott, a good friend and skilled explorer, at the pinnacle of his astronaut career. In his own words, “We went to the Moon as trained observers in order to gather data, not only with our instruments on board, but also with our minds. Plutarch, a wise man who lived a long time ago, expressed the feelings of the crew of Apollo 15 when he wrote ‘the mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.’”
Lunar exploration had come a long way since Neil and Buzz made their first moonwalk just two years earlier. Dave and Jim had the lunar rover, a moon car that would make possible five times the total
surface exploration of the three previous missions combined; and they had improved space suit backpacks which allowed them to stay outside their spacecraft nearly twice as long as any of us who had flown earlier.
I have painted Dave Scott, a good friend and skilled explorer, at the pinnacle of his astronaut career. In his own words, “We went to the Moon as trained observers in order to gather data, not only with our instruments on board, but also with our minds. Plutarch, a wise man who lived a long time ago, expressed the feelings of the crew of Apollo 15 when he wrote ‘the mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.’”
A New Frontier
Greenwich
Workshop Fine Art Giclée Canvas
Size: 18" w x 14" h.
Edition Size: 150 s/n.
Size: 18" w x 14" h.
Edition Size: 150 s/n.
$
345.00
An American Success Story
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18"w x 27"h.
Edition Size:100
Image size:
18"w x 27"h.
Edition Size:100
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“An American Success Story shows Astronaut John Young in April of 1972 as he stood proudly on the moon,” says artist Alan Bean,“but for a while, it didn’t look like he and Charlie Duke would even land. Orbiting the moon in their lunar module preparing for descent, a call came reporting an oscillation in the backup steering system.They knew that this might force them to return to earth as soon as possible. If the systems failed, the Apollo 16 and her crew would orbit the moon forever.
Immediately, mission control was alerted. Could they determine if oscillations would prevent the backup steering system from doing its job? Records were searched and tests conducted, in less than six hours the results were in: the mission could continue.We all breathed a collective sigh of relief. John Young would say later,“It was a cliff-hanger, but the ground crew really came through, putting us right back in the ball game.”
Immediately, mission control was alerted. Could they determine if oscillations would prevent the backup steering system from doing its job? Records were searched and tests conducted, in less than six hours the results were in: the mission could continue.We all breathed a collective sigh of relief. John Young would say later,“It was a cliff-hanger, but the ground crew really came through, putting us right back in the ball game.”
CONRAD GORDON AND BEAN
THE FANTASY
THE FANTASY
L.E.PRINT
Image size:
23 3/4"w x 15 3/4"h.
Edition Size:1000
Image size:
23 3/4"w x 15 3/4"h.
Edition Size:1000
$
385.00
Countersigned by astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr. and Richard F. Gordon, Jr.
Feelin´ Fine
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Image size:
12"w x 18"h
Image size:
12"w x 18"h
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95.00
Feelin´ Fine
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18"w x 27"h.
Edition Size:250
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18"w x 27"h.
Edition Size:250
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“This relaxed, impressionist astronaut image is one of my favorites,” says Bean. “I felt just like this so many times on the moon—even though I didn’t have time to stop and ‘assume the position.’ I think it takes a certain attitude of cockiness to be an astronaut, and it’s hard to show those emotions when I am behind the gold visors.”
First Artist on Another World
SMITHSONIAN POSTER - SIGNED
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22"w x 28"h. US:
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22"w x 28"h. US:
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70.00
HEAVENLY REFLECTIONS
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Image size:
24"w x 13 5/8"h.
Edition Size:850
Image size:
24"w x 13 5/8"h.
Edition Size:850
$
275.00
"I have painted Pete Conrad and myself 239,000 miles from Earth during the Apollo XII mission, standing on the Ocean of Storms, looking homeward. Pete and I had come a long way together. He is the best astronaut I have ever known. As we looked up, the sky was a deep shiny black. As I touched Pete's shoulder I thought, can all the people we know or have seen or heard about actually be up on that tiny blue and white marble? It was a wondrous moment."
Countersigned by Charles "Pete" Conrad
Countersigned by Charles "Pete" Conrad
HELLO UNIVERSE
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Image size:
29"w x 16"h.
Edition Size:550
Image size:
29"w x 16"h.
Edition Size:550
$
345.00
“Here we are, humans of planet Earth, standing on our only moon. Getting there wasn’t easy; in fact, it took about four hundred thousand of us giving our best efforts. None could do it alone but together we found a way to achieve this seemingly impossible dream. When the time is right, we will be ready to continue our noble quest to expand humanity’s reach. Our children and our children’s children will have to continue the search, each succeeding generation moving a little farther out, discovering more answers and even greater questions. The Universe awaits our audacious human spirit. Be patient...we are coming.”
Countersigned by Eugene A. Cernan and Edgar D. Mitchell.
Countersigned by Eugene A. Cernan and Edgar D. Mitchell.
Is Anyone Out There?
LIMITED EDITION PRINT
Image size:
22"w x 16 1/2"h.
Edition Size:244
Image size:
22"w x 16 1/2"h.
Edition Size:244
$
295.00
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 millennia “Is anyone out there?” 40 years ago, on November, 14, 1969, Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean, with fellow Apollo 12 astronauts, Commander Charles “Pete” 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.
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.
John Young Leaps into History
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Image size:
17"w x 22"h.
Edition Size:150
Image size:
17"w x 22"h.
Edition Size:150
$
295.00
“You feel this way when you're finally on the Moon!” says artist and Apollo 11 astronaut Alan Bean. “It’s the culmination of all you’ve studied and worked for since you were a little kid.
“John has jumped straight up about 3 feet or so. On Earth, this would have been impossible because John weighs 160 pounds and the suit and the backpack weigh 150 pounds, but on the Moon everything (including John) weighed only one-sixth as much. Someday there will be athletic contests on the Moon, maybe even Solar System Olympics and many astonishing records will be set.”
Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, was Young’s fourth space flight but his first lunar exploration. Young was Spacecraft Commander accompanied by Astronauts Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke. Young and Duke set up scientific equipment and explored the lunar highlands at Descartes in the Lunar Rover.
“John has jumped straight up about 3 feet or so. On Earth, this would have been impossible because John weighs 160 pounds and the suit and the backpack weigh 150 pounds, but on the Moon everything (including John) weighed only one-sixth as much. Someday there will be athletic contests on the Moon, maybe even Solar System Olympics and many astonishing records will be set.”
Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, was Young’s fourth space flight but his first lunar exploration. Young was Spacecraft Commander accompanied by Astronauts Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke. Young and Duke set up scientific equipment and explored the lunar highlands at Descartes in the Lunar Rover.
LONE STAR
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Image size:
33"w x 22"h.
Edition Size:250
Image size:
33"w x 22"h.
Edition Size:250
$
850.00
MOON ROVERS
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Image size:
17 3/4"w x 26"h.
Edition Size:550
Image size:
17 3/4"w x 26"h.
Edition Size:550
$
215.00
Alan Bean says, “I’ve portrayed astronaut Jim Irwin doing what tourists do around the world: take snapshots of the wonderful and exotic places they visit. In this photograph he is immortalizing his partner, Apollo 15 Commander Dave Scott, proudly riding in their new car, the Lunar Rover.” Alan captures a memorable moment during the 1971 lunar mission, with the Falcon lunar module and a brilliantly blue Earth for a backdrop. The fourth man to walk upon the lunar surface, Bean can count himself among the fortunate few who have been “moon rovers.”
Painting Apollo:
First Artist on Another World
First Artist on Another World
COLLECTOR BOOK W/ L.E. CANVAS
Image size:
11"w x 10"h
Image size:
11"w x 10"h
$
675.00
This summer the world will celebrate the 40th Anniversary of man’s first walk on the moon and your Greenwich Workshop Authorized Dealer has a room full of historic open and limited edition fine art at their fingertips for your gift giving and home or office display. Greenwich Workshop Artist and Apollo Astronaut Alan Bean will be the subject of a one-man show at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum featuring forty of Bean’s original drawings and paintings from July 16, 2009 until January 13, 2010. Some of these Apollo inspired paintings are available in Fine Art Limited Editions, many with historic counter-signers in addition to Astronaut and Artist Alan Bean.
In July 2009, Smithsonian Books will publish Painting Apollo: First Artist on Another World, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The Greenwich Workshop will produce this very limited Collectors Edition diptych and signed, slipcased book. Artist Alan Bean’s diptych portrays Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as they erect and salute the American flag on the surface of the Moon. It is a moment that will live in history forever, and in the collective memories of the millions of people who saw it live on television. There was so much to celebrate! We, the United States of America, had won a very real race to show which country could land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth. This amazing achievement demonstrated the collective will and capability of over 400,000 American men and women doing their jobs with care and precision.
COLLECTOR'S EDITION includes:
A Distant Celebration Diptych
Greenwich Workshop Fine Art Giclée Canvases:
(above left:) Rendering Honors 13" x 16" initialed by artist
(above right:) Planting Our Colors 13" x 16" s/n
plus the slipcased book
Painting Apollo: First Artist on Another World
with contributors including renown art critic Donald Kuspit and NASA Flight Director Eugene Kranz.
Trim size: 11 x 10, 224 pgs, 107 paintings.
with a specially-designed tip-in sheet signed by the artist.
limited to 225 s/n
In July 2009, Smithsonian Books will publish Painting Apollo: First Artist on Another World, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The Greenwich Workshop will produce this very limited Collectors Edition diptych and signed, slipcased book. Artist Alan Bean’s diptych portrays Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as they erect and salute the American flag on the surface of the Moon. It is a moment that will live in history forever, and in the collective memories of the millions of people who saw it live on television. There was so much to celebrate! We, the United States of America, had won a very real race to show which country could land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth. This amazing achievement demonstrated the collective will and capability of over 400,000 American men and women doing their jobs with care and precision.
COLLECTOR'S EDITION includes:
A Distant Celebration Diptych
Greenwich Workshop Fine Art Giclée Canvases:
(above left:) Rendering Honors 13" x 16" initialed by artist
(above right:) Planting Our Colors 13" x 16" s/n
plus the slipcased book
Painting Apollo: First Artist on Another World
with contributors including renown art critic Donald Kuspit and NASA Flight Director Eugene Kranz.
Trim size: 11 x 10, 224 pgs, 107 paintings.
with a specially-designed tip-in sheet signed by the artist.
limited to 225 s/n
REACHING FOR THE STARS
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Image size:
27"w x 34"h.
Edition Size:1500
Image size:
27"w x 34"h.
Edition Size:1500
$
2,200.00
In his book Apollo: An Eyewitness Account, Alan Bean says of Reaching for the Stars, "In one sense this is a painting of a universal astronaut, symbolizing everyone who flew in Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz. It also represents those who fly on space shuttles and will fly on a space station and on future missions only dreamed about at this time. The astronaut is an emissary of us all, soaring away from our planet earth... But in a broader view [Reaching for the Stars symbolizes] all of us who posses a dedicated and adventurous spirit no matter what our interests or age."
Countersigned by astronauts from the Mercury, Gemeni, Apollo, Skylab and Apollo-Soyluz programs.
Countersigned by astronauts from the Mercury, Gemeni, Apollo, Skylab and Apollo-Soyluz programs.
RIGHT STUFF FIELD GEOLOGISTS
LIMITED EDITION PRINT
Image size:
25 1/4"w x 16 1/2"h.
Edition Size:550
Image size:
25 1/4"w x 16 1/2"h.
Edition Size:550
$
495.00
The Apollo program was not only about getting to the moon and back, but making the best possible scientific observations once there. "Do we take test pilots and teach them geology or do we take geologists and teach them to fly?" was the question. The answer, in typical NASA fashion, was to create a team of both. This image of Apollo 17 Commander and skilled naval aviator Eugene A. Cernan handing yet another sample bag to Lunar Module Pilot and Doctor of Geology Harrison "Jack" Schmitt on the Taurus-Littrow Valley floor, represents the epitome of this exploration philosophy. On December 13, 1972, when Gene and Jack left the moon, they carried with them 240 pounds of lunar samples-more than any other mission could boast. Image size: 25 1/4"w x 161/2"h, published from the artist's original acrylic painting. 550 signed by the artist and consecutively numbered. Countersigned by Gene Cernan and Harrison "Jack" Schmitt.
The Eagle is Headed Home
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Image size:
24"w x 16"h.
Edition Size:150
Image size:
24"w x 16"h.
Edition Size:150
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495.00
Lunar Module Eagle has just made the first lunar liftoff. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are ascending from Tranquility Base to transfer themselves and their treasure of moon rocks to the command module and head for home.
On the Apollo 12 mission, I recall looking out the window during lift-off and seeing a ring of bright orange, silver and black flashes of light expanding rapidly outward, glints from pieces of metal-foil insulation blasted from the descent stage by the ascent engine.
On the Apollo 12 mission, I recall looking out the window during lift-off and seeing a ring of bright orange, silver and black flashes of light expanding rapidly outward, glints from pieces of metal-foil insulation blasted from the descent stage by the ascent engine.