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	Chesley Bonestell Summary
		Bonestell then realized that he could combine what he had learned about camera angles and painting techniques with his lifelong interest in astronomy.
		Bonestell's last work in Hollywood was contributing special effects art and technical advice to the seminal science fiction films produced by George Pál, including Destination Moon.
		Bonestell died in 1986 with an unfinished painting on his easel.
	www.bookrags.com /Chesley_Bonestell (1062 words)

	Chesley Bonestell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bonestell then realized that he could combine what he had learned about camera angles and painting techniques with his lifelong interest in astronomy.
		Bonestell's last work in Hollywood was contributing special effects art and technical advice to the seminal science fiction films produced by George Pál, including Destination Moon.
		Bonestell died in 1986 with an unfinished painting on his easel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chesley_Bonestell (598 words)

	Chesley Bonestell -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bonestell studied architecture at (A university in New York City) Columbia University in (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City.
		Bonestell then realized that he could combine what he had learned about camera angles and painting techniques with his lifelong interest in (The branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole) astronomy.
		Von Braun and Bonestell showed that it could be accomplished with the (The practical application of science to commerce or industry) technology then existing in the mid- (The decade from 1950 to 1959) 1950s, and that the question was that of (The most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender) money and will.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chesley_bonestell.htm (513 words)

	Chesely Bonestell: The Art of Chesley Bonestell
		Chelsey Bonestell may very well be the dean of space art, just as Robert Heinlein holds a similar position in the field of science fiction authors.
		Bonestell's attention to detail is obvious in nearly all of his work, from his study of the Taj Mahal (p.170) which shows the intricate carving on the building to the almost photorealistic depiction of New York City following an atomic attack (p.176-7) which has an eerie similarity to the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
		Bonestell demonstrates over and over again that he could paint scenes which did not have a preponderance of fl space for their background.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/bonestell.html (626 words)

	The New Mexico Museum of Space History - Inductee - Chesley K. Bonestell, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chesley Bonestell was an artist and illustrator who created paintings depicting astronomical scenes and space flight explorations.
		Chesley studied architecture at Columbia University for three years and worked on such structures as the Chrysler Building in New York City and on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.
		Chesley Bonestell died at his home in Carmel, California on June 11, 1986 at the age of 98.
	www.spacefame.org /bonestell.html (415 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		Ron Miller's biographical and critical essay on Bonestell runs through the first half of the volume, where all the illustrations are keyed to relevant portions of the text.
		Chesley Bonestell, the man who in the public mind came to be identified as the da Vinci of the conquest of space, claimed that his own favorite among his paintings was one called "The Engulfed Cathedral--A Fantasy." The painting in question is pure myth, featuring a grazing unicorn and a ruined amphitheater by the sea.
		Whatever the answer to the riddle of Bonestell (he liked to deride science fiction as trash, and chose to display his Hugo Award in his bathroom), his huge accomplishments are undeniable, and they come across magnificently here.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue218/cool.html (771 words)

	Chesley Bonestell Space Art Limited Editions
		A print commissioned by Bonestell Space Art, this is Bonestell's signature piece, and one of his most requested images.
		A print commissioned by Bonestell Space Art, this is one of the master's most amazing exercises in detail and scale.
		Originally painted in 1944 for a LIFE magazine article, this is also the cover of the retrospective Bonestell Book, available from Amazon.com.
	www.novaspace.com /LTD/BONESTELL/Chesley_ltd.html (548 words)

	The_Chesley_Bonestell_Archives - Page: 2 of 35
		The Chesley Bonestell Archives represents the world's single largest collection of publications containing space illustrations by the "Dean of Astronomical Artists" -- Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986).
		Assembled, owned, and maintained by the respected Bonestell researcher and author, Melvin H. Schuetz, the Archives preserves the historical record of published Bonestell space art, from its beginnings in 1944 to the present day.
		Bonestell Space Art owns and controls the copyrights to Bonestell's artwork and licenses its reproduction.
	www.bonestell.com /the_chesley_bonestell_archives002.htm (183 words)

	Bonestell Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Chesley Bonestell Art Gallery is a WWW based application through which one can take a virtual tour of the privately owned Bonestell collection.
		Aside from creating a usable application from which others can learn and enjoy the art of Chesley Bonestell, a goal for this project was to explore a wide range of technology in an effort to capture digital images of differing quality with varying retrieval speeds and file sizes.
		Bonestell's impact upon the field of space exploration was recently the focus of an article in Scientific American (May 1994).
	archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu /SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Arts/humm/bonestell.html (1311 words)

	Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame -- Science Fiction HOF -- Chesley Bonestell
		Chesley Bonestell's photo-realistic space art presented space exploration not as some far-off dream, but as a real and possible undertaking.
		Bonestell began his career as an architect and architectural artist, contributing to the design of the Golden Gate Bridge and New York's Chrysler Tower gargoyles.
		Bonestell received a bronze medal from the British Interplanetary Society, a Special Achievement Hugo Award, and was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame.
	www.sfhomeworld.org /exhibits/homeworld/scifi_hof.asp?articleID=208 (381 words)

	SPACELIGHT: Bonestell, Chesley - personal data
		Chesley was one of the four men most responsible for bringing the wherewithall of space travel and rockets to the moon into America's consciousness.
		And Chesley Bonestell illustrated them all with artwork that was photographic and breathtaking.
		Bonestell (bahn-uh-stell) studied architecture as a young man and worked on such important projects as the Chrysler Building in New York and the Golden Gate bridge.
	www.gwillick.com /Spacelight/bonestel.html (361 words)

	A Hypertext Vision of Space: Exploring Chesley Bonestell's Art
		Bonestell's images of the Moon were so plausible, that there was a "universal sigh of disappointment after the first lunar landing when the Moon was shown not to look like a Bonestell painting" (Miller, Space 16).
		Bonestell's vision of the Moon is realistic and his photographic technique adds to it's belivablity, thus constructing a plausible illustration of Earth's satellite before it was walked upon by man.
		Bonestell's artwork was assumed to be true until modern technology and new discoveries proved otherwise.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~jaa3q/342/chesley.html (1500 words)

	LMT Tech Resource Store: Books : The Art of Chesley Bonestell
		The last Chesley Bonestell collection of this calibere, "Worlds Beyond: The Art of Chesley Bonestell", was published in 1983.
		Chesley Bonestell's art goes back to the golden age of Science Fiction of the late 1940's, 1950's and 1960's.
		Bonestell's art makes you want to be at the places he's painted except for places like New York under nuclear attack and ancient Egypt being bombarded by comets.
	www.elise.com /lmtstore/1855858843/The_Art_of_Chesley_Bonestell.html (439 words)

	Chesley Bonestell
		Bonestell kindled America's drive to other planets with a series of stunning LIFE magazine articles in the 1940s featuring Bonestell portfolios of Saturn; in another, a "hypothetical" Moon landing.
		Bonestell often included tiny figures in his paintings (editors hastily added "for scale"), but the subliminal idea of man in space was not lost on the viewer.
		Bonestell then teamed up with Wernher von Braun, the leader of the German rocket team who had come to the U.S. after World War II.
	www.novaspace.com /ARTIST/ChesleyBonestell.html (378 words)

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		Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986) was the father of modern space art.
		Bonestell Space Art was created more than three decades ago in collaboration with Chesley Bonestell.
		Bonestell Space Art maintains the single largest collection in the world of photographs, transparencies and prints of Bonestell artwork, almost all which are high-quality images made from the original paintings.
	www.bonestell.org (220 words)

	Chesley Bonestell (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986) era pintor, diseñador, e ilustrador.
		Bonestell entonces realizó sobre que él podría combinar lo que él había aprendido ángulos de cámara fotográfica y las técnicas de la pintura con su interés de por vida en astronomía.
		Bonestell siguió la sensación que estas pinturas crearon publicando más pinturas en muchos compartimientos nacionales que conducían.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ch/Chesley%20Bonestell.htm (646 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Art of Chesley Bonestell (Site not responding. Last check: )
		More than 300 of Bonestell's works appear in the book, and if fewer but larger reproductions might have shown his art to better advantage, the opportunity the book affords to rediscover this influential artist, whose success has been credited with stoking public support for the U.S. space program, outweighs that quibble.
		Chesley lived to be nearly a hundred, and was able to compare many of his painted visions of other worlds to actual photos taken by astronauts and robots.
		Whether you are an old fan or are discovering Bonestell for the first time, this is a rich feast of his art, which ranges from architectural renderings to recreations of long-vanished Spanish missions of California.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1855858843?v=glance (1804 words)

	Chesley bonestell limited edition space art prints (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although Chesley has passed away Bonestell Space Art still continues to represent his works and the royalty payment is made to them.
		Chesley Bonestell is considered by many to be the father of modern space art.
		Bonestell's paintings inspired and encouraged a whole generation of space enthusiasts world wide.
	www.dreamstone.com.au /artisthtml/chesley_bonestell.htm (472 words)

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