Toward Splashdown
Leila Fleisher
Oil on canvas
With splashes of unusual colors, Leila Fleisher stylistically depicts what Earth would look like from the perspective of astronauts a great distance away. Although painted before the Apollo 17 “Whole Earth” image was taken, her work similarly isolates the planet against a dark background.
Gift of Leila Fleisher
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