HANNES BOK (1914-1964)
THEN THEY STARTED SENDIN' EM ROUND THE MOON - TAKIN' PICSHERS ALL THE TIME AS THEY FLEW
signed and dated Hannes Bok 1947 (upper left)
pencil on paper
14 x 9¹⁄₂ in. (35.6 x 24.1 cm.) (sight)
Executed in 1947.

Norman Brosterman (b. 1952), New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2001.

A. Bertram Chandler (as George Whitley), "Boomerang", Famous Fantastic Mysteries, August 1947, vol. 8, no. 6, illustrated.
Norman Brosterman, Out of Time: Designs for the 20th Century Future (New York, 2000), p. 86, illustrated.

Tacoma, Washington, Washington State Historical Society, Out of Time: Designs for the 20th Century Future, 11 November 2000-7 January 2001; also, Lansing, Michigan, Michigan Historical Museum, 27 January-25 March 2001; New York, New York Historical Society, 14 April-10 June 2001; Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming Art Museum, 30 June-26 August 2001; Fargo, North Dakota, Plains Art Museum, 1 December 2001-27 January 2002; Springfield, Massachusetts, 5 October-1 December 2002.
Seattle, The Museum of Pop Culture (formerly EMP), Infinite Worlds of Science Fiction, 27 March 2015-31 December 2017.
London, UK, Barbican Centre, Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction, 3 June-1 September 2017; also, Athens, Greece, Onassis Cultural Center, 9 October 2017-14 January 2018; Odense, Denmark, Kunstmuseum Brandts, 28 September 2018-17 February 2019; Rotterdam, Netherlands, Kunsthal Rotterdam, 16 March-30 June 2019.