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Chesley Knight Bonestell (1888 - 1986) was active/lived in California, New York. Chesley Bonestell is known for Science fiction, outer space theme illustration, spacescape painting.
If Lucian Rudaux was the Grandfather of space art, Chesley Bonestell was the father. 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. 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.
Bonestell's paintings not only anticipated 20th century space exploration, they helped to bring it about. So realistic were his depictions of other worlds that visiting them no longer seemed fantasy. His artwork looked like picture postcards taken by some future astronaut.
Bonestell started drawing at age five and began formal art instruction by the time he was 12. When he was 17, he visited Lick Observatory where he was inspired by seeing Saturn through the observatory's giant refractors. As soon as he returned home, Bonestell sketched a picture of the planet as he had observed it—probably his first at ...
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