Object Details
- Artist
- Alma Thomas, born Columbus, GA 1891-died Washington, DC 1978
- Exhibition Label
- In Snoopy—Early Sun Display on Earth, Thomas’s reverence for the beauty of living things expands to a planetary scale. Captivated by astronauts’ accounts of seeing Earth from outer space, Thomas portrayed a rainbow-hued planet pulsating with light and vitality.
- “Snoopy” was the nickname for the Apollo 10 lunar module, a reference to the Peanuts comic strip character (who was also a NASA mascot) and the module’s job of flying around the moon to “snoop” for a promising landing site. Thomas would likely have seen the widely circulated photograph taken from “Snoopy” as it orbited the moon. Known as Earthrise, the image shows a partly illuminated, vibrant blue Earth as it rises above the surface of the moon.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Vincent Melzac
- 1970
- Object number
- 1976.140.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 49 7/8 x 48 1/8 in. (126.8 x 122.1 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 37A
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Abstract
- Record ID
- saam_1976.140.1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk72c1519ff-2efb-44fb-a1e1-eb95b29316b2
