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/
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