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.
DNA Leaves the Planet
Commissioned by the Life Sciences Division of NASA in 1986 to illustrate a publication about their work. The artist imagines the lift-off of a Space Shuttle as symbolically and literally carrying Earth's DNA into space.
16" x 20", acrylic on illustration board. Framed in metal and glass with mat 20" x 26".
Signed by the artist.
Dyson Lattice
This is the most ambitious painting of the Encyclopedia Galactica series by Jon Lomberg, with an elaborate caption co-written with Carl Sagan. See page 313 of the book, COSMOS, by Carl Sagan for other captions from this series. Full caption available on request.
30" x 40", mixed media on illustration board.
Signed by the artist.
East Meets West
In 1987, Jon Lomberg was invited by the Soviet Academy of Sciences to display his work at the Space Future Forum, an international meeting held on the 30th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik I. The artist painted this image to symbolize the future of cooperation in space. The Capitol Building of the United States of America and St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, symbolizing their respective nations, dock in orbit around the Earth.
The planet Mars is seen just beneath the point where the two buildings link. A joint effort to explore Mars is a worthy goal of international collaboration between the two great spacefaring powers of Earth. The view of Earth is of the Eastern Pacific, from the cloud covered Bering Straits, where the continents "dock", to Hawaii, home of the artist.
20" x 16", oil on canvas board.
Signed by the artist.
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Gravitational Lensing (Set of 3 Paintings)
This series of three small paintings was commissioned by Sky and Telescope magazine for an article about the phenomenon of gravitational lensing.
The first of the three paintings was used as the cover art for Sky and Telescope magazine in 1982. The third painting, showing a complete "Einstein Ring", was featured in the book, "The Illustrated Brief History of Time", by scientist and author Stephen Hawking.
Each painting, 8" x 7", watercolor on illustration board.
Signed by the artist.
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