![]() ![]() As soon as he returned home, Bonestell sketched a picture of the planet as he had observed it-probably his first at ![]() When he was 17, he visited Lick Observatory where he was inspired by seeing Saturn through the observatory's giant refractors. His artwork looked like picture postcards taken by some future astronaut.īonestell started drawing at age five and began formal art instruction by the time he was 12. So realistic were his depictions of other worlds that visiting them no longer seemed fantasy. When he died 98 years later, men had walked on the moon and spacecraft had visited most of the planets and many of the moons of the solar system.īonestell's paintings not only anticipated 20th century space exploration, they helped to bring it about. He was born on January 1, 1888, 15 years before the Wright brothers first flew and 38 years before the launch of the first liquid-fuel rocket. If Lucian Rudaux was the Grandfather of space art, Chesley Bonestell was the father. Chesley Bonestell is known for Science fiction, outer space theme illustration, spacescape painting. Chesley Knight Bonestell (1888 - 1986) was active/lived in California, New York. ![]()
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