John Polgreen (1)
A selection of vintage Space Art by John Polgreen an American artist most prolific in the 50’s. It’s style akin to the work of Chesley Bonestell and 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/ a proper Sci-fi Blog to behold! Fantastically in-depth stuff there, an excellent resource.
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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/
Winchell is my hero. Winchell for president!
Thanks for the Information Winchell… Your blog is quite incredible!
He was my grandfather! He passed before I was born but my parents have his books and artwork all around their house.
His illustrations in the 1965 edition of the Sky Observers guide inspired me to no end. I would love to get my hand on the illustrations he made of observers standing beside their telescopes.
Thanks for the comment Marc. I actually don’t know so much about him, definitely the focus for a future post.