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Artist Profile: George Mayers

Posted on by Dazzling Erin

I found this biography of the artist George Mayers at Quart.com:

George Mayers is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art. He spent many years in New York doing illustrations for advertising agencies and most of the major magazines. His workhas appeared in Time, Colliers, Redbook, Coronet, Life and Fortune. His assignments often included subjects dealing both the Revolutionalry Warand the Civil War. During his extensive research on these subjects, his interest in history was developed and subsequently deepened. He continues to work a great deal with historical subject matter. Mayers works with oil, watercolor and acrylic demonstrating a great facility in each. He has had many one-man shows ans has been the recipient of several awards including the Freedoms Foundation Medal for a series of paintings on the American Flag that appeared in Coronet in 1951. His work is included in numerous private collections throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. He has appeared in one-man shows every other yearat Newman’s Gallery in Phiadelphia, Pennsylvania in addition to a long list of other gallery showings and exhibitions.  He died in 1987.

Below are a few of Mayers’s paperback covers:

Artist Profile: Alan Bean (1932 — 2018)

Posted on by Dazzling Erin

On November 24th, 1969, 37 year-old Alan Bean became the fourth man to walk on the surface of the moon.  As a part of the crew of Apollo 12, Bean piloted the Lunar Module and, along with Pete Conrad, he spent a day and 7 hours on the lunar surface.  Four years later, Bean would return to space as a part of the Skylab 3 mission.

When Bean retired from NASA in 1981, he devoted himself to painting.  As Bean explained it, being an astronaut gave him a chance to see things that no one else had ever gotten a chance to see and he hoped that, through his paintings, he could allow others the chance to experience what he experienced.  For his paintings of the moon, Bean would often add small patches of actual lunar dust.

Bean passed away on May 26th but he left behind two proud legacies, one of exploration and one of art.  Below are just a few of Bean’s lunar paintings.  More can be seen at his website.