ROBERT T. MCCALL - PAMPHLET SIGNED 7/1993 - HFSID 209195

ROBERT McCALL
Color brochure with a three-page reproduction of space artist Robert McCall's unfinished mural The Prologue and the Promise at EPCOT Center. Signed and dated by McCall in 1993.
Pamphlet signed: "Robert T. McCall/July 93" in silver ink.Color,6 pages, 8x10¾, 1 sheet folded, front and verso, folded in thirds. Across three pages is reproduced, in color, McCall's mural, The Prologue and the Promise, 21½x7, as it appears in the Horizons Pavilion at Walt Disney's EPCOT Center. On the cover of the brochure is a color photograph, 7x5, of McCall standing in front of a portion of his unfinished work, The Prologue and the Promise. He has signed beneath the photograph. If you've ever been to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D. C. or seen the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, you've seen the art of McCall (1911-2010). His six-story mural The Space Mural - A Cosmic View (1976) greets visitors to the museum, and he also painted the advertising poster's for 2001. McCall's first brush with fame came in the 1960s, when he became the illustrator for LIFE magazine's series on the future of space travel. He was then selected as an artist for NASA and designed the mission patches for Apollo 17 and the first Space Shuttle mission. McCall's artwork of a bright and optimistic future and heroic spacesuited astronauts have since appeared at Walt Disney World's EPCOT Center, the Pentagon, Johnson Space Center, the Dryden Flight Research Center and the Kansas Cosmosphere, as well as on stamps commemorating the space program. No less a light than Isaac Asimov called McCall the "nearest thing to an artist in residence from outer space". Lightly creased at lower right corner. Two staple holes along left fold. Folded twice and unfolded. Otherwise in fine condition.