Original Art
Selected original art featured in this gallery is for sale. Most originals are also available as prints. Originals are signed by the artist and include documentation authenticating their history and association with the projects described in this gallery.
Approaching the Milky Way
A key frame from the original COSMOS television series storyboards, showing the view as we enter the Milky Way at an oblique angle. This artwork was the sketch from which the artist executed the final animation scene, one of the most vivid and widely reproduced from the COSMOS series animation and shown on the signed, limited edition print available for purchase on this web site.
This original art also has a vellum overlay with handwritten labels showing the position of the Sun, Orion Nebula, Crab Nebula, and the direction towards the Andromeda Galaxy from where we approached our galaxy.
16" x 12", gouache on paper, glued to foam core backing.
Signed by the artist.
SOLD
Barred Spiral Galaxy from Encyclopedia Galactica
From a series of paintings called "Encyclopedia Galactica", created in collaboration with Carl Sagan, who helped Jon Lomberg write the captions appearing on each painting. This project evolved into the episode/chapter in COSMOS of the same name. This series envisions entries in a compendium of civilizations and objects in the universe. Carl Sagan owned some of the paintings in this series, as does Frank Drake and the Arecibo Observatory.
The caption reads:
BARRED SPIRAL TYPE SBb(rs)
VIEWED FROM ITS COMPANION GALAXY
From the Complete Catalogue of Extraterrestrial Objects
(Human Edition)
vol.MMMMMXXVI
25" x 36", acrylic on illustration board and framed in silvered aluminum.
Signed by the artist.
Core-Set
A key frame from the original COSMOS television series storyboards, showing the galactic center setting behind the disk of the galaxy as we enter the Milky Way.
16" x 12", gouache on paper, glued to foam core backing.
Signed by the artist.
SOLD
Cosmic Brain
This was a logo design for Carl Sagan Productions, for a potential series on the human brain.
10" x 13", acrylic on illustration board.
Signed by the artist.
SOLD
COSMOS Logo
This was an early design for the COSMOS television series title logo, showing linked galaxies, with the C and S formed by the shape of the spiral arms. The lettering branches into an interstellar communication system, linking civilizations in the galaxy.
13" x 9", gouache on paper showing linked spiral galaxies.
Includes a transparent acetate overlay with yellow line art showing the COSMOS title lettering and a sample episode titled, "Starstuff".
Signed by the artist.
SOLD
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