Charles Bittinger (1879-1970)

Earth as Seen from the Moon

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Charles Bittinger (1879-1970)
Earth as Seen from the Moon
signed with artist's initials 'CB' (lower right)
gouache on paper laid down on board
23¾ x 19¼ in. (60.3 x 48.9 cm.)

来源

Commissioned by the National Geographic Society.

出版

National Geographic magazine, July 1939, p. 17, fig. I.; The Art of National Geographic: A Century of Illustration, the National Geographic Society, 1999, p. 176.

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In planning and working out the paintings that accompany this article, I came to feel more than ever that astronomy is the greatest monument to human intelligence, which has explored out into unimaginable depths of space with nothing more tangible than the fragile waves of light.
Charles Bittinger, 1939