Smith - advised artist Robert "Bob" McCall as he painted the museum's mural "The Space Mural: A Cosmic View."įollow Elizabeth Howell. These two members, along with current advisor John Goodson of ILM, have combined experience on eight "Star Trek" films and four episodes of "Star Wars." Also, Smith's father - mural artist William A. To advise on the paint job, the museum added two new experts to its advisory committee: Academy Award-winner Bill George from Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and Kim Smith, now with Creature Art & Mechanics Digital and formerly with ILM. Detail of the Space Mural: A Cosmic View by Robert McCall (1976) Portion of a very large wall mural at the National Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C. (A large portion of that shade of gray was also found under the saucer bolt cover, making matching fairly simple.) That part will be cleaned and stabilized, while everything else will be painted to match the original hull's gray color. Only one exterior spot, the top of the saucer, had the original paint. Painted over the course of eight months in 1976, McCall's depiction of the creation of the universe leading to astronauts walking on the Moon is seen by an estimated ten million annually.
So far, conservators have found that the secondary hull needs a metal collar to stabilize the structure, which is currently held together by old adhesive and no other support.Īnalysis revealed many levels of paint overlaying the structure, applied during four generations of filming and four previous restorations. Perhaps his most famous piece, the six-story 'The Space Mural - A Cosmic View' greets visitors to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. McCall entitled The Space Mural: A Cosmic View, on the 45th anniversary. Meanwhile, the model has been separated into its components for individual study, photographing and X-raying to determine their condition. Visitors to the Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum walk past a depiction of space exploration by artist Robert T.
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