The Apollo Painting by Lumen Martin Winter depicting three h

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The Apollo. Painting by Lumen Matin Winter, depicting three horses racing across the sky, with a fourth horse trailing, against a background of three intersecting solar and planetary shapes. Acrylic on canvas, signed lower right, titled on the stretcher. 61x73 inches.Np, [1969]

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In 1969 Winter painted a mural for the lounge of the St. Regis Hotel in New York. Apollo 13 Commander James Lovell remembered the painting, titled "Steeds of Apollo" when he was looking for inspiration for a mission emblem. He asked Winter to design the emblem, and the Apollo 13 emblem of three horses at full gallop is the result (see lots 169 and 413). The mural is a huge 8x20 feet, and now hangs behind the main bar at Lovell's of Lake Forest, a restaurant owned by the Lovells.
"The Apollo" is another version of the same scene, probably a half-size study for the original mural. Lumen (1908-1982) is internationally known as a muralist, painter, and sculptor. His works are at the chapels of the Air Force Academy and at the United Nations headquarters in New York, and in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the White House and the Vatican.