koko motel -cocoa beach florida -any info?? - General Tiki

T TikiTomD Grand Member (6 years) Flagler Beach, FL Joined: Sep 20, 2009 Posts: 700	T TikiTomD Posted posted on Sun, Oct 12, 2014 8:16 AM Amazingly, NASA had the foresight to commission artists in the early days of the Space Race to record the strange new world being created… one of the products of that project was a beautiful circa 1962 watercolor and ink painting by Chrystal Jackson that features the KoKo Motel in Cocoa Beach, Florida, the same motel of my previous vintage match cover post… love the dragon façade revealed in this painting… there is a second felt tip pen on paper work by Mario Cooper in 1969 that features palm trees at what appears to be the KoKo Motel’s poolside… You can see more of this project’s creations at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum web site, including an expanded view of those two pieces of art at: http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19781173000 http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19751260000 -Tom

Amazingly, NASA had the foresight to commission artists in the early days of the Space Race to record the strange new world being created… one of the products of that project was a beautiful circa 1962 watercolor and ink painting by Chrystal Jackson that features the KoKo Motel in Cocoa Beach, Florida, the same motel of my previous vintage match cover post… love the dragon façade revealed in this painting… there is a second felt tip pen on paper work by Mario Cooper in 1969 that features palm trees at what appears to be the KoKo Motel’s poolside…

You can see more of this project’s creations at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum web site, including an expanded view of those two pieces of art at:

http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19781173000

http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19751260000

-Tom

Post #729472 by TikiTomD on Sun, Oct 12, 2014 8:16 AM