Name: R.C. SWANSON (20TH CENTURY)
Brand: ROCKET FLEET IN DESERT LANDSCAPE
Price: 26000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

R.C. SWANSON (20TH CENTURY)
ROCKET FLEET IN DESERT LANDSCAPE
signed R.C. SWANSON (lower right)
gouache and paint on board
18³⁄₄ x 51¹⁄₄ in. (47.6 x 130.2 cm.) (sight)
Executed circa 1963.

Probably Charles E. Cooper, New York.
Norman Brosterman (b. 1952), New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2002.

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Lot Essay

This fantastical landscape is rooted in reality and the imaginary. The panoramic view shows the sequence of day into night from left to right. The desert base is dotted with military personnel and twenty-eight rocket-powered vehicles, both actual and proposed crafts as a part of the space program of the 1960s.