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"A Fire to be Lighted" by Alan Bean
Canvas Edition:
Limited Edition on Canvas
Edition Size: 100 artist signed and numbered prints
Image Size: 18" x 27"
Issue Price: Canadian $825.00; approx. US $650.00
“The Falcon is on the Plain at Hadley.” These
were the first words heard back on Earth when Dave Scott and Jim Irwin
made their landing in July 1971. Falcon had alighted them on a
scientific bonanza. As Dave looked around from Falcon’s overhead hatch,
he thought, “No place on Earth has such a concentration of
features.” There were mountains taller than Everest (relative to their
surroundings) and a meandering gorge a mile across, a thousand feet deep and seventy miles long.
I have painted Dave Scott, a good friend and skilled explorer,
at the pinnacle of his astronaut career. In his own words, “We went to
the Moon as trained observers in order to gather data, not only with
our instruments on board, but also with our minds. Plutarch, a wise man
who lived a long time ago, expressed the feelings of the crew of Apollo
15 when he wrote ‘the mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to
be lighted.’” - Alan Bean