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Giclee Prints
The titles featured in this gallery are available as Giclee prints. Giclee prints are digitally produced art, printed on canvas or paper using archival quality materials for many years of fade-free enjoyment. Paper offers a smooth finish while canvas is textured to appear similar to an actual painting. All Giclee prints are signed and have a minimum 2" white border on all sides. |
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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:
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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.
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Cosmic Brain
This was a logo design for Carl Sagan Productions, for a potential series on the human brain.
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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.
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Gravitational Lensing No. 1
This is No. 1 in a series of three small paintings commissioned by Sky and Telescope magazine for an article about the phenomenon of gravitational lensing. This painting was used as the cover art for Sky and Telescope magazine in 1982.
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