Moon Museum
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lithograph of tantalum nitride film on ceramic wafer
Dimensions
sheet: 1.4 × 1.9 cm (9/16 × 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the family of Fred Waldhauer
Accession Number
2021.45.1
Art Historical Context
**Moon Museum** (1969) is a collaborative masterpiece by Forrest Myers with contributions from Pop Art icons Andy Warhol, Claes Old, David Novros, Robert Rauschenberg. tiny print, measuring just 1.4 × 1.9 cm, pushes the boundaries of scale and medium: a lithograph created via tantalum nitride thin-film deposition on a ceramic wafer—a technique borrowed from microelectronics, not traditional printmaking. Its intimate size invites viewers to ponder art's presence in the vastness of space. Crafted amid the fervor of the Apollo moon landings, the *Moon Museum* symbolizes the 1960s fusion of avant...