Original Art

Here is a rarity - a Lomberg landscape that is simply a realistic painting of a scene, in this case the observatory at Las Companas in Chile. It was painted for the production of the 1989 PBS special, MAUNA KEA: THE SEARCH FOR OTHER WORLDS. It served as the background for an animation sequence showing the wind currents in the Andes.

26" x 22", acrylic on canvas, framed in white lacquer (small stain on inner cloth matte, bottom right).
Signed by the artist.

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Nuclear Winter is a piece done for the production of NUCLEUS, a never completed TV project of Carl Sagan's that dealt with various issues pertaining to nuclear weapons, the science that makes them possible, and the physical and political issues surrounding their possible use.

In this piece, Jon wanted to create a winter scene a la the old Courier and Ives prints, but with the snowflakes being the "broken and dirty snowflakes" symbolic of nuclear winter.

24" x 20", acrylic on canvas, framed in white lacquer.
Signed by the artist.

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Jon Lomberg is an artist from Hawaii who is known worldwide for his visualizations of cosmic events. He was Emmy Award winning Chief Artist for Carl Sagan's classic TV series, COSMOS. His Portrait of the Milky Way is the most accurate view of our galaxy ever painted. It was on display for ten years at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and is now part of their permanent collection of aviation and space art.

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