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E.V.A. Extra Vehicular Activity

Print
1978 (made)
Artist/Maker
Loewy, Raymond Fernand (artist)
Place of origin
USA

Reproduces one of a series of designs, ca. 1968, for a project for the USA's National Aeronautical and Space Administration [NASA} entitled the 'Satan Five Space Station Habitability Study'. This particular design is the study of a device facilitating the transfer from working overalls into the EVA space suit before leaving 'Skylab' through the hatch ('Skylab' was designed ca. 1969 and launched 14 May 1973)


Object details

Categories
Transport
Printed Pages & Sheets
Object type
Print
TitleE.V.A. Extra Vehicular Activity (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithography
Lithography
Brief description
Raymond Loewy, E.V.A. Extra Vehicular Activity, 1978. Colour lithograph.
Physical description
Reproduces one of a series of designs, ca. 1968, for a project for the USA's National Aeronautical and Space Administration [NASA} entitled the 'Satan Five Space Station Habitability Study'. This particular design is the study of a device facilitating the transfer from working overalls into the EVA space suit before leaving 'Skylab' through the hatch ('Skylab' was designed ca. 1969 and launched 14 May 1973)
Dimensions
  • From catalogue height: 32.5cm
  • From catalogue width: 42.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • RL (Each signed in pencil or white chalk with the artist's monogram)
  • AP (Inscribed)
  • (Lettered with title)
  • Raymond Loewy / William Snaith Inc. (Inscribed)
Object history
One of a suite of eight images based on drawings made by the artist from 1937-1979, with monogrammed cover sheet and a title page, in a cloth bound portfolio [E.643 to 651-1981]. The portfolio published by Circle Fine Art Corporation, 1979.
Subject depicted
Astronauts
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.646-1981

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Record createdAugust 15, 2008
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O166073/eva-extra-vehicular-activity-print-loewy-raymond-fernand/
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