Artist: Alan Bean
Title: Reaching For The Stars
Edition Size: 1500
Medium: Lithograph Print on Paper
Image Size: 27" x 34"
About the Art: 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 ourplanet 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.""