ALAN BEAN - SEPT. 2010

" BEYOND A YOUNG BOY'S DREAM "

125 s/n Limited Edition Canvas
14" x 21"
$395

 

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - FEB. 2011

" A JEWEL IN THE HEAVENS "

150 s/n Limited Edition Canvas
12" x 14"
$265

 

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - SEPT. 2010

" A NEW FRONTIER "

150 s/n Limited Edition Canvas
14" x 18"
$345

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - APRIL 2010

" FENDER LOVIN' CARE "

125 s/n Giclee Canvas
10" x 14"
$265

Apollo 17 Astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt are doing some
“low-tech” body work on their high-tech Lunar Rover. During their
first moonwalk Gene accidentally hooked the hammer he carried in his
right leg pocket onto the Rover’s right rear fender extension, knocking
it off. He fixed it temporarily by taping it on with duct tape.
Unfortunately, somewhere on their lunar drive the tape gave way
and the fender extension fell off and was lost for good.
Losing a part of a fender, a minor problem on planet earth, is a serious
one in the light gravity of the moon. Gene would report, “Oh, it
pretty near makes me sick at losing that fender. With the loss of any
of the fender extension the dust generated by the wheels is intolerable.
Not just the crew gets dusty, but everything mechanical on the Rover
is subject to dust. I think dust is probably one of our greatest
inhibitors to a normal operation on the moon.”

Back on planet earth, Astronaut John Young and other friends in mission
control conceived a nifty repair. After wake-up the next morning, Gene
and Jack would select four plasticized maps already used on the mission
and tape them together. Back with the Rover on the surface that morning,
they could continue with the repair. I painted Gene and Jack aligning
the maps to the fiberglass fender. When Gene is satisfied, Jack will
hold the maps steady as Gene secures them using two small clamps
normally used to mount auxiliary lights inside the lunar module
cabin. The fix worked!

 

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - JUNE 2010

" JOHN YOUNG LEAPS INTO HISTORY "

100 s/n Giclee Canvas 29" x 22" Email-price
150 s/n Paper 17" x 22" $295

“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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - MARCH 2010

" IS ANYONE OUT THERE "

69 s/n Giclee Canvas 30" x 40" $1250
244 s/n Paper 16.5" x 22" $295

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.

ALAN BEAN - NOV 2009

" THE EAGLE IS HEADED HOME "

150 s/n Giclee Canvas
16" x 24"
$495

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.

 

ALAN BEAN - SEPT. 2009

" ARMSTRONG, ALDRIN AND AN AMERICAN EAGLE "

150 s/n Giclee Canvas
14" x 9"
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Apollo 11’s lunar module, Eagle, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard, is just about to touch down on the Sea of Tranquility, July 20, 1969. The descent engine is firing in order to slow the descent rate to ensure a gentle landing as Armstrong searches for a level area on the surface of the moon.

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - APRIL 2009

" A GIANT LEAP "

175 s/n Giclee Canvas
15" x 12"
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Neil Armstrong’s first step on the Moon was Apollo’s most celebrated moment. No matter what our age, those of us on planet Earth remember exactly where we were and what we were doing at the time. “In A Giant Leap,” says artist and astronaut Alan Bean,“I show him shifting his weight onto the Moon, placing the first human footprint there. ‘That’s one small step for man,’ Neil said, ‘one giant leap for mankind."

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - SEPT. 2008

" A MOST BEAUTIFUL MOON "

150 s/n Giclee Canvas
12" x 10"
$385

“I began several studies a number of years ago to record my memories of seeing the moon close up. Years later I decided to rework some of the studies as color exercises. With A Most Beautiful Moon, I tried to retain some of the reflected-earth light-shadow effect while adding other earth colors. I’m spending most of my time recording an event that will never happen again in our history: humankind’s first visit to another world.”

 

 

ALAN BEAN - APRIL 2008

" MOTHER EARTH "

125 s/n Giclee Canvas
12" x 10"
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“The planet Earth seemed a long way off in this scene,” says Alan Bean, “because it was—about a quarter of a million miles, in fact. From the Moon, the Earth appeared as a beautiful blue-and-white marble with occasional small orange areas, which were deserts.
“The Moon itself was a foreboding place when viewed from orbit, mostly gray with stark, angular mountains and deep, rough canyons and craters. It was as if nature had pounded it again and again with a big, big hammer.“In contrast, our Earth was beautiful—all shiny and bright. It was hard to believe that everybody I had ever known—or seen on TV—and the places they lived and played were all on that little blue-and-white marble. Even today, it’s still hard to believe.”

 

ALAN BEAN - AUG. 2007

" JIM IRWIN, INDOMITABLE ASTRONAUT "

75 s/n Giclee Canvas
12" x 9"
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“Jim Irwin, Colonel, United States Air Force, had a brilliant but challenging career. His is a story of difficult challenges met, and with hard work and perseverance, overcome. After battling illness and severe injuries for ten years, Jim Irwin found himself standing on the Moon.
After leaving NASA, Jim authored a number of books about his life and about his experiences. He gave me one of those books as a gift and I treasure it today. He inscribed ‘Decisions determined destination! Your grateful brother, Jim Irwin, Apollo 15.’”

 

 

ALAN BEAN - APRIL 2007

" RED, WHITE AND BLUE "

75 s/n Giclee Canvas
11" x 13"
$485

"The space program represents what is truly great with America," says artist Alan Bean. "When I was an astronaut I felt each day that I had accepted a responsibility to do the right thing professionally in everything that I did. I was not alone in this as I saw this 'right stuff' code everywhere.

It was a good feeling to know that all those around me were dedicated to making our nation's space exploration effort as good as it could possibly be.

This red, white and blue feeling and theme carried over into everything we did. If everyone at NASA cut ourselves I believe we would all bleed red, white and blue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - MARCH 2006

" AN AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY "

100 s/n Giclee Canvas
27" x 18"
$650

“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.”

 

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - OCT. 2005

" A FIRE TO BE LIGHTED "

100 s/n Giclee Canvas
27" x 18"
$650

“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 totalsurface 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.”

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - SEPT. 2004

" FEELIN' FINE "

250 s/n Giclee Canvas 27" x 18" $650
Open Edition Paper 18" x 12" $95

“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.”

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - MAY 2003

" HELLO UNIVERSE "

550 s/n Limited Edition Paper
16" x 29"
$345

“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.

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - FEB 2002

" AMERICA"S TEAM...JUST THE BEGINNING "

Poster
15" x 36"
$30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - APRIL 2001

" RIGHT STUFF FIELD GEOLOGISTS"

550 s/n Limited Edition Print
16.5" x 25.25"
$495

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.

 

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - AUGUST 2000

" LONE STAR "

250 s/n Limited Edition Canvas
22" x 33"
$850

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - FEB. 2000

" THE HAMMER & THE FEATHER "

650 s/n Limited Edition Print
25.5" x 20"
$414

Countersigned by Dave Scott
Against the backdrop of the lunar module Falcon, Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott illustrates the hand of the Italian Renaissance on one of our century’s greatest achievements. The moon’s lack of atmosphere provided the ideal conditions to confirm what Galileo Galilei had concluded centuries before, as both hammer and feather, dropped simultaneously, contacted the moon’s surface at the same time. To the principle that in a vacuum objects fall at the same rate regardless of mass, Scott was able to report, “How about that, this proves that Mr. Galileo was correct in his findings.”The Hammer and the Feather is complemented by pencil sketches of Scott and the artist printed in the margin.

 

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - JUNE 1999

" STRAIGHTENING OUR STRIPES "

550 s/n Limited Edition Print
17.5" x 27"
$365

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - FEB. 1999

" MOON ROVERS "

550 s/n Limited Edition Print
26" x 17.75"
$215

 

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - OCT. 1998

" KISSING THE EARTH "

650 s/n Limited Edition Print
14.5" x 24"
$1275

 

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - APRIL 1998

" HOMEWARD BOUND "

550 s/n Limited Edition Print
19" x 17.5"
$585

On Christmas morning of 1968, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders completed their tenth lunar orbit in man's first trip to the moon. With the burn of the service module engine just completed on the back side of the moon, these men are homeward bound.
PROJECT APOLLO! Man's triumphant travel to, and safe return from, the moon remains one of the 20th century's most significant accomplishments.

And, in the tradition of frontier artist-explorers Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, fine artist-astronaut-moonwalker Alan Bean was there!

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - SEPT. 1997

" REACHING FOR THE STARS "

1500 s/n Limited Edition Canvas
34" x 27"
$2200

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.

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - FEB. 1997

" HEAVENLY REFLECTIONS "

850 s/n Limited Edition Print
13.625" x 24"
$275

"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.

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - JUNE 1995

" HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM "

1000 s/n Limited Edition Print
18.5" x 23"
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Countersigned by astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise;
actors Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, and Gary Sinise;
and director Ron Howard.

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - SEPT. 1994

" IN THE BEGINNING... "

1000 s/n Limited Edition Print
17.25" x 15"
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Countersigned by Walter Cunningham and Wally Schirra (Apollo 7),
Frank Borman (Apollo 8), Jim McDivitt and Rusty Schweickart (Apollo 9),
Tom Stafford (Apollo 10), Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins (Apollo 11),
Alan Bean, Charles Conrad Jr. and Dick Gordon (Apollo 12), Fred W.
Haise and Jim Lovell (Apollo 13), Edgar Mitchell, Stuart A. Roosa and
Alan B. Shephard Jr. (Apollo 14), Dave Scott and Al Worden (Apollo 15), Charlie Duke (Apollo 16) and Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt (Apollo 17).

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - APRIL 1993

" CONRAD , GORDON & BEAN THE FANTASY "

1000 s/n Limited Edition Print
15.75" x 23.75"
$385

Countersigned by astronauts
Charles Conrad, Jr. and Richard F. Gordon, Jr.

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - MAY 1992

" IN FLIGHT "

850 s/n Limited Edition Print
12.5" x 19"
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Countersigned by Apollo astronauts
Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa.

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - MAY 1998

" THAT'S HOW IT FELT
TO WALK ON THE MOON "

850 s/n Limited Edition Print
28" x 19.75"
$575

 

 

 

 

 

ALAN BEAN - SEPT. 1987

" HELPING HANDS "

850 s/n Limited Edition Print
18.625" x 28"
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