Robert McCall original poster concept artwork featuring Pan Am Clipper and rotating wheel space station for 2001: A Space Odys...

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Robert McCall original poster concept artwork featuring Pan Am Clipper and rotating wheel space station for 2001: A Space Odyssey. (MGM, 1968) Vintage original artwork accomplished in acrylic on 21.5 x 24.45 in. artist's leaf tipped to backing board. This artwork is very similar to the iconic final poster art for the film, yet this depicts a second, much larger Pan Am Clipper approaching the rotating wheel space station. Created by noted NASA space artist Robert McCall, celebrated for his production illustration on 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, U.S. postage stamps, NASA mission patches, as well as murals which grace the walls of the National Air and Space Museum, National Gallery of Art, The Pentagon, Epcot, and Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Monumentally important production artwork from this seminal science fiction epic. Exhibiting age and production wear with some holes from display. In vintage very good to fine condition.

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