A selection of vintage Space Art by John Polgreen an American artist most prolific in the 50’s – a style akin to the work of Chesley Bonestell - difficult to believe these beautifully rendered forward thinking scenes are 50 or more years old. Perhaps then a shame that these depicted visions (simultaneous moon landings) haven’t quite come true yet.
Alas there’s not a raft of information on John Polgreen, best place to start is with Flickr User’s Curly-Wurly and Nick Derington who have both posted galleries set’s featuring more of his work.
Picture Notes:
Top: Astronauts surveying a Lunar Landscape via Nick Derington
2nd Top: Blast off from the Lunar Surface via Nick Derington
Bottom: A slightly different style (more painterly) via The Weird World of Winchell Chung / http://www.projectrho.com/ << now that’s a proper Sci-fi Blog to behold! some fantastially in depth stuff there – excellent resource.
Anyone with any more detailed info on John Polgreen, please post a comment.
Thanks for the mention.
The astronaut image is from The Golden Book of Astronomy by Rose Wyler and Gerald Ames, illustrated by John Polgreen (1958).
There is a larger scan here:
http://img26.imageshack.us/i/patrol.jpg/
Comment by Winchell Chung — July 11, 2009 @ 2:16 pm
Winchell is my hero. Winchell for president!
Comment by a speck of dust — July 12, 2009 @ 4:00 am
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Comment by Kie — July 13, 2009 @ 9:07 pm