439-apollo-11-flag-dixon – The painting depicts the historic deployment of the American flag during the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission on July 20, 1969. Two astronauts anchor the flag into the textured regolith of Tranquility Base, with the Lunar Module Eagle standing prominently behind them. The sun bursts dramatically over the horizon directly behind the spacecraft, casting long shadows forward and illuminating a crescent Earth and a dense field of stars in the vacuum of the lunar sky. Acrylic and gouache study for Hamilton Collection commemorative plate, 1993.
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