Welcome to my Online Gallery!
I hope you’ll enjoy your visit.
I've had the good fortune to be part of one of the greatest adventures of all time -
the first flights to the Moon. In 1969, I flew on the second landing mission with my good friends Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon and, while Dick stayed in orbit to look after the Command and Service Module that would take us all home, Pete and I landed on the Ocean of Storms. We spent more than 7 hours outside during our two moonwalks, deploying scientific experiments and collecting rocks and soil samples. Near the end of our second moonwalk, we visited the Surveyor III spacecraft that landed in a nearby crater 31 months earlier. While there, we cut off the Surveyor's TV camera, scoop, and several other parts and returned them to Earth for study.
Our time on the Moon ended much too quickly and, in the years since then,I have created paintings to try to capture the feeling of our Apollo 12 mission, as well as all the other the Apollo missions, too. It's my hope that these paintings will help other people share in the great adventure. The Gallery will make the sharing easier than ever before.
Thanks for coming by,
Alan in an email to Ulli Lotzmann:
“…Your idea for an online Gallery was brilliant, and I proudly direct so many people to it. I don’t think “Thanks” is enough to describe the way I feel about what you, Eric and now Ken have done and are doing to make the world aware of these first paintings that realistically depict what humans do when taking their first steps on another plant. As the centuries unfold there may be other artists with other paintings, but these paintings in the Gallery
will remain, for all time, THE FIRST.” - Alan
Alan in 1981 wearing his Skylab training A7LB space suit.
Alan Bean wearing his flown Skylab EVA gloves. Houston, Texas, November 18, 2004
“It was hard for me to believe. I would look down and say, 'This is the moon, this is the moon,' and I would look up and say, 'That's the Earth, that's the Earth’. So, it was science fiction to us even as we were doing it.”
Alan Bean
Alan’s Video Welcome
Alan Bean’s video welcome to the visitors of his online gallery. He is also describing some aspects of his art.
We apologize for the poor audio quality.
First video welcome recorded in his studio in 2005. We apologize for the poor image quality.
Another video welcome by Alan Bean recorded in 2005. We apologize for the poor image quality.
Alan at Work
Alan was a perfectionist and throughout the years of artwork he always evolved his techniques. To invite you to the world of space art we would like to show you Alan’s way of developing his paintings and the process of creation.
