GALACTIC HORIZON

29.5" x 21" by Davis Meltzer. Original gouache painting on illustration board. Circa 2003. From the Estate of Davis Meltzer. Not sure if this was ever published but my guess is that it was likely done for NASA or National Geographic.

Davis Paul Meltzer was born in 1930, in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, and attended school in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Both his parents, the late Arthur Meltzer and Paulette Van Roekens, were highly respected fine art painters—and he inherited their great talent. During his career as a freelance artist he created stamps for the U.S. Postal Service, painted dozens of sci-fi book covers, worked for NASA, and worked as a scientific illustrator for 30 years at National Geographic.