Moon Shot
Date1969
Artist
Lowell Nesbitt
(American painter, 1933–1993)
MediumColor lithograph on black paper
Dimensionssheet: 22 × 29 1/2 in. (55.9 × 74.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Reese and Marilyn Palley, 1991
Object number1991-129.4
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextIn 1969, Lowell Nesbitt was invited to participate in the NASA Art Program, which began in 1962 to encourage artists to document and interpret space exploration. Nesbitt focused his project on the first moon landing by the astronauts of Apollo 11. The artist produced a series of lithographs based on photographs taken during the July 1969 mission and accompanied these iconic images with a page of quotations from American astronauts.
