SHERRY, ROBERT C. 1920-1987. Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches (508 x 762 mm), signed "R. Sherry" lower left. Framed. ED WHITE'S HISTORIC SPACEWALK, the first for an American Astronaut, was conducted June 3, 1965 as part of Gemini 4. He used a hand-held tubular gas jet to maneuver himself on the end of a 25-foot tether. At the end of his excursion outside the capsule, he seemed reluctant to return to the spacecraft, responding to Jim McDivitt's urging him back in by saying "I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life." Robert Sherry was a New York born artist who painted cover illustrations for science fiction magazines in the early 1940's, before entering the Navy as a transport pilot in WWII. After the war he was a ghost artist for many popular comic strips, but settled into a specialization in aviation art in his later years.
SHERRY, ROBERT C. 1920-1987. Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches (508 x 762 mm), signed "R. Sherry" lower left. Framed. ED WHITE'S HISTORIC SPACEWALK, the first for an American Astronaut, was conducted June 3, 1965 as part of Gemini 4. He used a hand-held tubular gas jet to maneuver himself on the end of a 25-foot tether. At the end of his excursion outside the capsule, he seemed reluctant to return to the spacecraft, responding to Jim McDivitt's urging him back in by saying "I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life." Robert Sherry was a New York born artist who painted cover illustrations for science fiction magazines in the early 1940's, before entering the Navy as a transport pilot in WWII. After the war he was a ghost artist for many popular comic strips, but settled into a specialization in aviation art in his later years.
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