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A Window On The End Of An Era - Astronauts By Alan Bean

By Alan Bean

A Window on the End of an Era - Astronauts by Alan Bean

Captain Alan Bean creates imagery from a perspective on the Apollo program no other artist can claim. And, it is that moonwalker experience that enables him to lace his paintings with details that could only be remembered by someone who was there.

“The Apollo 17 crew, Gene Cernan, Ron Evans and Jack Schmitt, are busy configuring their spacecraft for transearth injection, a burn that will rocket them out of lunar orbit and on a trajectory safely back to Planet Earth,” Alan Bean explains. “If they had the time to look out the window, they might see what we see, the stark lifeless beauty of the Crater Leuschner, bathed in a beautiful blue tinted reflected earth light, with the magnificent blue and white Earth appearing to slip behind the lunar horizon for the last time. But they don’t, their focus is inside."

“It is about 5:00 PM at Mission Control in Houston, Texas, on December 16, 1972, where we were in the final phase of completing the boldest era of exploration in history. The Apollo 17 crew’s mantra had been ‘The End of the Beginning.’ Apollo had done its work, taking humans 240,000 miles from the shores of our home planet and setting the stage for future exploration."

“But since this last glimpse 40 years ago, nobody has ventured further than 400 miles from Earth. Few of us realized then that humans would not return to the Moon to stay for a very, very long time. But when they do return, it will be on the shoulders of Apollo."

“I know that someday a new energy and quest for exploration will emerge from the leaders of our great nation to reach once again for the Moon and beyond, goals technically within our grasp, but not yet captured by their spirit. As we witness the Earth-set on this last orbit of the Moon by humans, Apollo’s place in history was complete: our work as the new explorers was done and it was time to pass the torch to others to fulfill the promise of Apollo.” ~ Alan Bean

Captain Bean creates his original works of art using a unique technique allowing the viewer to actually sense vestiges of the 20th century’s most dramatic accomplishments. Pressed into the canvas surfaces are Captain Bean’s authentic lunar boot “moonprints,” impressions from a core tube-bit used to collect soil samples and marks from a hammer used to drive the staff of the American flag into the moon’s surface. Our Greenwich Workshop Fine Art Edition Giclee of "A Window on the End of an Era" beautifully captures this element of his trademark style and each is signed by Astronaut, Explorer, Moonwalker and Artist, Alan Bean.A view from outer space showing both Mother Earth and the Moon from the window of a rocket.

A Window on the End of an Era - Astronauts by Alan Bean is available for sale as a signed and numbered limited edition giclee canvas with a 24 x 16 vertical image size for sale priced at $___ unframed.

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The artists is an astronaut, Captain Alan Bean was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, the fourth man to walk on the moon and commander of Skylab 2. “I am fortunate enough to have seen sights no other artist ever has,” Bean says. This painting shows us the planet earth from the window of Apollo 17 module

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