🔥 Vintage Outer Space Science Fiction Planet Asteroid Oil Painting CARROLL 1979

Description: This is a very Fine Vintage Outer Space Science Fiction Planet Asteroid Oil Painting on Artist Board, depicting an extraterrestrial large gas planet, surrounded by a dense asteroid belt. This astounding painting is by astronomical artist and science writer, Michael W. Carroll. The detail in this painting is absolutely phenomenal, and this painting is worthy of being in any scientific astronomical journal in the world. The asteroids are depicted in sharp, photorealistic detail, and the planet itself is rendered in kaleidoscopic hues of green, blue and teal. The pitch blackness of outer space is visible in the four corners of this painting, and this artwork is signed and dated in the lower left corner: "M. Carroll '79." Approximately 24 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 24 x 30 inches. Good condition for decades of age and storage, with a few light scuffs to the painted surface, and mild edge wear and scuffing to the original period vintage aluminum frame (please see photos.) Acquired in the Bay Area of Northern California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About the Artist: Writer, lecturer and artist Michael Carroll is a Fellow and founding member of the International Association for the Astronomical Arts. His art has appeared in several hundred magazines throughout the world, including SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, TIME, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, SKY & TELESCOPE, ASIMOV’S, SMITHSONIAN, and ASTRONOMY. Michael Carroll is an illustrator, painter, writer, teacher, editor, consultant, colleague, friend, husband, and father. For over 40 years, he has used his gifts and talents to contribute to everything from museums and videos to books and magazines. His books and articles range from subjects as old as a trilobite to those as alien as a methane sea. This website offers a selection of his many paintings and books. Some are technical, some are humorous, but all are crafted with great scientific respect. Michael Carroll is a Fellow and founding member of the International Association for the Astronomical Arts, and the recipient of the Lucien Rudaux Award for outstanding lifetime achievement in the astronomical arts. One of his paintings is on the surface of Mars—in digital form—aboard the Phoenix spacecraft. He has done work for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His art has appeared in several hundred magazines throughout the world, including SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, TIME, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, SKY & TELESCOPE, ASIMOV’S, SMITHSONIAN, ASTRONOMY, and ASTRONOMY NOW (UK). He is a member of the NASA Arts Program, and was an invited participant on a U.S. Geological Survey expedition to the Bering Glacier in Alaska, where he documented the research through paintings. Carroll headed a 2016 expedition to Antarctica's Mount Erebus, the southernmost active volcano in the world. Murals include two 70-foot works for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, large works in Michigan, California, Nebraska, and for Lockheed/Martin and the Planetary Society. Michael Carroll is the recipient of the American Astronomical Society Division of Planetary Science’s Jonathan Eberhart Award for best science article of the year. Among his 32 published books, Mike and his wife, Caroline, have coauthored over a dozen children's books. The Exploring God’s World series includes the Gold Medallion finalist Dinosaurs. The highly popular science-themed Absolutely Awesome (Tyndale) has 30,000 sold so far. Other titles include Living Among Giants, and Earths of Distant Suns. Alien Volcanoes (Johns Hopkins University Press 2008), Smithsonian Books' Envisioning Exoplanets showcases art by the author and many other members of the IAAA, and Drifting on Alien Winds (2011), which explores the weather on other planets and moons. Living Among Giants: Exploring and Settling the Outer Solar System and Plato's Labyrinth: dinosaurs, ancienct Greeks and time travelers are among are his most recent works. He is a science journalist and children’s author, having written for such magazines as Astronomy, Popular Science, Astronomy Now (UK), Asimov’s, Analog, Sky & Telescope, Clubhouse, and Artists magazines. Carroll lectures and teaches internationally. He has led numerous workshops on writing, art and astronomy, and has been a guest speaker and teacher at numerous churches, museums and aerospace facilities. Carroll lives with his lovely wife, Caroline, near their 2.0 fine children in the Denver, Colorado area. Michael W. Carroll is an astronomical artist and science writer. His art has appeared in magazines such as TIME, National Geographic, and Astronomy, and has flown aboard the Russian space station Mir and NASA's Phoenix Mars lander. He is also a founding member of the International Association of Astronomical Artists. Carroll has written over 30 children's and adult books on subjects ranging from space to paleontology, including a Christian book series for children. He has been commissioned by NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Planetary Society. Carroll was staff artist for the Reuben Fleet Space Theater, one of the world's largest planetariums and OMNIMAX theatres in San Diego. International Association of Astronomical ArtistsIn 1981 a group of astronomical artists met in a space art show sponsored by the Planetary Society for the Society's Planetfest, held during the live transmission of close-up photos of Saturn by Voyager II. Carroll was curator of the exhibition. Artists in attendance organized several successive annual workshops; Carroll organized the second, held in Death Valley, California towards the end of 1983. With a rapidly growing membership, the IAAA (International Association of Astronomical Artists) was formally registered as an association of astronomical artists in 1986.He was one of seven North American space artists invited by the Space Research Institute of the former USSR to attend the Space Future Forum in Moscow in 1987, where he consulted with Soviet scientists and artists. While there, he helped to establish the Dialogues project, a series of workshops and exhibitions involving Soviet, American and European artists. One of his digitized paintings was aboard Russia¹s doomed Mars 96 mission, an original flew aboard Mir, and a third is on the surface of Mars, in digital form, aboard the Phoenix Lander.AwardsCarroll is the recipient of the 2006 Lucien Rudaux Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in the astronomical arts.In 2012, he received the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences's Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award. In 2017, he received a Congressional Medal for his participation in an expedition to Antarctica's Mount Erebus.

Price: 1350 USD

Location: Orange, California

End Time: 2024-08-14T22:26:29.000Z

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