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This list of space artists includes artists who produce
art about space and spaceflight, such as paintings of proposed space missions.
Artists
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Charles Bittinger
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Chesley Bonestell
Chesley Knight Bonestell Jr. (January 1, 1888 – June 11, 1986) was an American painter, designer and illustrator. His paintings inspired the American space program, and they have been (and remain) influential in science fiction art and illustr ...
(1888–1986)
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Howard Russell Butler
Howard Russell Butler (March 3, 1856 – May 20, 1934) was an American painter and founder of the American Fine Arts Society. Butler persuaded Andrew Carnegie to fund the construction of Carnegie Lake near Princeton University, supervised the con ...
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Paul Calle
Paul Calle (pronounced KAL-ee; March 3, 1928 – December 30, 2010) was an American artist who was best known for the designs he created for postage stamps, including 40 that were released by the United States Postal Service, and others for s ...
(1929–2010)
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Chris Calle
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People with the given name
*Chris Abani (born 1966), Nige ...
(1929–2010)
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Michael Carroll
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Jack Coggins
Jack Banham Coggins (July 10, 1911 – January 30, 2006) was an artist, author, and illustrator. He is known in the United States for his oil paintings, which focused predominantly on marine subjects. He is also known for his books on space tr ...
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Vincent Di Fate
Vincent Di Fate (born November 21, 1945) is an American artist specializing in science fiction, fantasy and realistic space art (hardware art) illustration. He was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.
Di Fate was bor ...
(born 1945)
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Don Davis (born 1952)
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Joe Davis
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(born 1950)
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Don Dixon (born 1951)
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*]Bob Eggleton
Bob Eggleton (born September 13, 1960) is an American science fiction, fantasy and horror artist. Eggleton is a nine-time Hugo Award–winner for Best Pro Artist in science fiction and fantasy, first winning in 1994. He won the Hugo Award for ...
(born 1960)[
* Danny Flynn]
* David A. Hardy (born 1936)[
*]Joby Harris
Joby Harris (born February 21, 1975) is a designer and director in Los Angeles, California. He is also the lead singer and guitar player for the American post-hardcore band Crash Rickshaw. He is currently a visual strategist for NASA and the ...
(born 1975)
*William K. Hartmann
William Kenneth Hartmann (born June 6, 1939) is a noted planetary scientist, artist, author, and writer. He was the first to convince the scientific mainstream that the Earth had once been hit by a planet sized body (Theia), creating both the ...
(born 1939)
*Kirthi Jayakumar
Kirthi Jayakumar (born 15 December 1987) is a peace educator, a women, peace, and security and feminist foreign policy practitioner, lawyer and writer. She is a Commonwealth Scholar, a Vital Voices (VV) Lead Fellow, a VV Engage Fellow, a Loc ...
*Jon Lomberg Jon Lomberg (born 1948) is an American space artist and science journalist. He was Carl Sagan's principal artistic collaborator for more than twenty years on many projects from 1972 through 1996. In 1998, the International Astronomical Union offici ...
(born 1948)
* Robert McCall (Bob McCall) (1919–2010)
* Syd Mead (1933–2019)[
* Ron Miller (born 1947)
* Theophile Moreux
*]Nahum
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(born 1979)
*Andreas Nottebohm
Andreas Nottebohm, born in 1944, is an American/German artist whose work is associated with op art, visionary art, and space art. He is considered one of the key innovators of metal painting.
Life
Born and raised in Eisenach, East Germany, he ...
(born 1944)
* Ludek Pesek (1919–1999)
* Frank Pietronigro
*Pat Rawlings
Patrick Rawlings (born 1955) is an American technical illustrator and space artist. Since 1970s his illustrations related to spaceflight featured in hundreds of books and magazines, as well as in film and television.
Pat Rawlings is a B.A. in Art ...
(born 1955)[
*]Lucien Rudaux
Lucien Rudaux (1874–1947) was a French artist and astronomer, who created famous paintings of space themes in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Rudaux crater on Mars and the Lucien Rudaux Memorial Award are named in his honor. The asteroid 35 ...
(1874–1947)
* Adolf Schaller
*John Schoenherr
John Carl Schoenherr (July 5, 1935 – April 8, 2010) was an American illustrator. He won the 1988 Caldecott Medal for U.S. children's book illustration, recognizing ''Owl Moon'' by Jane Yolen, which recounts the story of the first time a father ...
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*Yuri Pavlovich Shvets
Yuri Pavlovich Shvets (russian: Юрий Павлович Швец; born in Poltava 1902 – 1972) was a Soviet cinematic artist, famous for art and scenery especially of fantasy and science-fiction films.
As a youth, Shvets held several jobs, th ...
(1902–1972)
* Rick Sternbach (born 1951)[Project Enzmann]
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*Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (December 26, 1827 – April 22, 1895) was a French artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist.
He is noted for the import and release of the spongy moth into North America. The spread of the moths as an invasive s ...
Astronaut space artists
*Alan Bean
Alan LaVern Bean (March 15, 1932 – May 26, 2018) was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, NASA astronaut and painter; he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. He was selected to become an astron ...
* Alexei Leonov
*Sian Proctor
Sian Hayley "Leo" Proctor (born March 28, 1970) is an American commercial astronaut, geology professor, and science communicator. On September 15, 2021, she was launched into Earth's orbit as the pilot of the Crew Dragon space capsule. This miss ...
*Nicole Stott
Nicole Marie Passonno Stott (born November 19, 1962) is an American engineer and a retired NASA astronaut. She served as a Flight Engineer on ISS Expedition 20 and Expedition 21 and was a Mission Specialist on STS-128 and STS-133. After 27 ye ...
See also
* List of space art related books
References
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External links
Mostly Lunar Exploration space art
(NASA)
(NASA)
Space Art Exhibition 2015
Artists
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Space
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