"And there we were all in one place,
A generation lost in space…"
— Don McLean, "American Pie"
Today's NY Times says Robert T. McCall, space artist, died at 90 on Feb. 26.
"His most famous image may be the gargantuan mural, showing events from the creation of the universe to men walking on the Moon, on the south lobby wall of the National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington. More than 10 million people a year pass it.
Or it might be his painting showing a space vehicle darting from the bay of a wheel-shaped space station, which was used in a poster for Stanley Kubrick’s landmark 1968 film, '2001: A Space Odyssey.'"
Cover art by McCall, with autograph dated
8/19/05, from a personal web page
Hal in "2010"– "Will I dream?"
Log24 on the day that McCall died—
"Which Dreamed It?"
– Title of final chapter,Through the Looking Glass
"Go ask Alice… I think she'll know."
– Grace Slick, 1967
Related material: James Joyce in this journal–