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Artist (1931-2024) and founding director of NASA’s Art Program, serving from 1962 to 1974. He recruited prominent artists such as Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol, Paul Calle, and Robert McCall to document the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions, believing artists could capture the emotional dimension of space exploration beyond photography. In 1974, Dean became the first curator of art at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, serving until his retirement in 1980. Group of four original sketches by noted NASA space artist James Dean, each accomplished in graphite on off-white sheets ranging in size from 9 x 6.75 to 9 x 12, which contains the following images with captions: a Space Shuttle astronaut in front of the ISS (“Manned Flight, Space Station, Shuttle, STS-26 Patch”); the Hubble space telescope (“Space sciences – Hubble telescope, Galileo, Sun, Solar Nebula”); an astronaut on an alien world next to the Mars Pathfinder (“Pathfinder – Transfer Vehicle, Autonomous Lander, Planetary Outpost, Planetary Rover”); and a portrait of NASA Administrator James C. Fletcher (“James Fletcher”). In overall fine condition. Each artwork is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Novaspace.
