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 number1991-129.5
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis print connects the astronaut’s camera to the scientist’s microscope. The ambiguous organic forms in shades of silver flatten the visual differences between craters on the Moon and single-celled life. In doing so, Nesbitt calls attention to how we experience both types of image: by using a lens.
