Malcolm Smith - Artist Info

About Malcolm Smith

  • Biography from the Archives of askART

    Malcolm Smith biographical photo
    The following, submitted September 2004, is from Ronald Ferdie, Tucson, Arizona.


    "I had been a close friend of Malcolm and his family in his later years. . . .The third image in your current gallery would've been for a book developed on the life on other worlds subject with the tentative title "Planet Orbiting A Close Binary Star System".

    Malcolm's regular job during this time until his death was as an artist working for NASA at their Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. It's interesting to note that his career started as a commercial artist, then a science fiction and fantasy artist who became art editor for a number of magazines in that field -- and then a real "space" artist making some wonderful artwork and animated movies about our nation's Saturn-Apollo Moon missions and other space exploration programs.

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