This summer, 40 years after Neil Armstrong walked his first steps on the moon, "space artist" Alan Bean will exhibit a group of his paintings in a show entitled Alan Bean: Painting Apollo, First Artist on Another World at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
Alan Bean was the fourth man to walk on the Moon in 1969 (with Apollo 12). After working with NASA for 18 years as an astronaut, Bean retired so that he could focus on his painting.
The Smithsonian, heralding Bean as the first "space artist", says, "Displaying both art and artifacts, this exhibition weaves the technology of one of humankind’s greatest achievements with an artist’s firsthand account of a new frontier."
Opening Thursday, July 16, 2009
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
The National Mall
Independence Ave at 6th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20560
Tiptoeing on the Ocean of Storms, 1982, acrylic on masonite
Kissing the Earth, 1994, acrylic on masonite
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