"Spider and the Fly" ARTIST PROOF, is available with printed Remarque, Signed by Stan Vosburg and Major Lee Kendall, $225
Very Limited Supply
33 x 27 in. Artist Proof, w/ printed Remarque................$225 Signed by Stan Vosburg and Major Lee Kendall,
Very Limited Supply
A tribute
to the
Northrop P-61
Black Widow
"The Spider and the Fly"
by Stan Vosburg
33 x 27 in. Limited ed.,Signed and numbered by the artist, $125
33 x 27 in. Limited ed. , w/ printed Remarque, Signed by Stan Vosburg and Major Lee Kendall, $175
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Northrop P-61 Black Widow "The Spider and the Fly"
The 4th limited edition print in the series, “Aviation on the Home Front”; a view of life in Southern California in the 1940’s. A tribute to the Northrop P-61 Black Widow, street baseball and Orange, California .
In spring 1945, Orange, California was the same sleepy town it had been throughout World War II. The conflict in Europe was over, but victory in the Pacific was months away. Three years of war had brought many hard-ships and trials to the residents of this small town. Yet, much of its daily life went on as always. Children blasted fly balls in the street between the neighbors' cars, trying to squeeze in one more inning before sunset.
The air droned with the roar of new and exotic military aircraft. Suddenly, a shiny black airplane rocketed through the sky. The Northrop P-61, the Black Widow, was a big, powerful, brutish-looking fighter designed to prey on enemy night intruders. The dark sky was its habitat, and radar, a new mysterious invention, was its eyes. Like the black widow spider for which it was named, the P-61 was quick, potent and deadly. The children, for the first time seeing it fly over their town, would not forget the sight of this specter.
