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John W. Mccoy (PA/ME, 1910-1989)

Sold for $500 at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries on Feb 27, 2022.

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"Pad 34, 11:30 pm., 5/12/63" Watercolor sketch for "Gordon Cooper Flight, 1963", inscribed lower left and intialed "J.W.M.", and having label verso indicating this is the moment of Cooper's Freedom 7 NASA space flight, showing the now empty gantry, in silver cove frame, matted under UV glass, OS: 26 3/4" x 20 3/4", SS: 17 1/4" x 11 1/4", good condition. Includes letter from NASA presenting this book to artist John McCoy. Includes folio sized book "Eyewitness to Space: 258 Paintings, Drawings and Prints by 47 of America's Great Artists, Commissioned by NASA and the National Gallery of Art to Record America's Historic Space Program", by Hereward Lester Cooke, Curator of Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, New York. 12 1/2" x 17". PLUS Program from the Memorial Service for Cooke at the National Cathedral, Oct. 10, 1973. Plate 58 derived from this study.

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