The Dragon - from the portfolio "Ten Views of the Moon", authored by Ray Bradbury

 

Joseph Anthony Mugnaini

  1912 - 1992 (biography)

1981  

color lithograph 

16 1/8 x 20 3/4" image size 

lower right by artist, lower left by Bradbury 

94/150; only about 85 portfolios were completed 

pencil titled and editioned; Bradbury's signature, lower left 

 

cream wove 

published 

artist 

18318 

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One of the greatest science fiction writers of the 20th century, Ray Bradbury (born 1920) authored such classics as "The Martian Chronicles", "The Illustrated Man", "Fahrenheit 451" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes." The writer and the artist met in Los Angeles in 1952 and Mugnaini went on to illustrate many of Bradbury's works, including "Fahrenheit 451." From a portfolio of ten color lithographs created by Mugnaini, with interpretive captions authored by Ray Bradbury. The prints were drawn on the plates by Mugnaini and printed on an offset press by Kistler. Corresponding text printed on inside portfolio cover: "The Dragon - Imagine locomotive train upon a midnight track, but in the flashing of a breath, consuming Time, becomes a Dragon on the path, in search of knights. Or, no, does it begin as Dragon, then become Machine?"