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Study for A Lunar Landscape
Chesley Bonestell American
Patron Museum of Science, Boston
Not on view
In 1956 the Boston Museum of Science commissioned Bonestell to create a ten-by-forty-foot mural of the lunar surface for the museum’s Charles Hayden Planetarium. Although the topography appears convincingly realistic, he could not resist the urge to embellish; the craggy peaks in his painting are considerably more dramatic than the moon’s rounded hills. The mural was removed from the Boston Museum in 1970 and entered the collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in 1976.
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