The second of two pieces of full-color artwork photographed at the archive of the Ira G. Ross Aerospace Museum in Niagara Falls. Both of these were painted on thick matt board.
It was a rare joy to find (well, “be shown,” to be more precise) not only color artwork of an early Dyna Soar concept, but the *actual* artwork. There are a whole lot of crappily reproduced black and white artists concepts for the Dyna Soar and other programs… and for every one of these sad remnants, there was, and might still be, a full-color painting that some talented artist worked away at. Sadly, chances are that many if not most of these works of art have been destroyed. The art tends to remain the property of the company that paid to have it produced… and for the most part, companies don’t give a damn about preserving such things. Art takes up space.
