STAR WARS ORIGINAL PRE-PRODUCTION FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATION BY COLIN CANTWELL

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  One of eight pieces of original pre-production art created by Colin Cantwell for George Lucas in imagining the spaceships that might populate the Star Wars (20th Century, 1977) universe, circa 1974/1975. This full-color mixed media (predominantly colored pencil) illustration features the second of two X-Wing Fighter designs depicted in this collection of early pre-production artwork. Cantwell created the X-Wing Fighter in design and name with his original artwork and prototype model designs. In this illustration, the X-Wing is depicted two times, in the two different modes. Half of the illustration depicts the X-Wing Fighter in attack mode (with wings open on each side, forming the iconic “X”). It is also firing lasers from the armament on each wing. Two pilots appear in the cockpit, positioned in tandem, wearing orange suits and helmets, much like Luke Skywalker does in the original trilogy. In the bottom left of the artwork, the X-Wing Fighter is seen in a much smaller scale shown in flight mode, with wings close, appearing to make a landing on the surface of a planet. In the upper left corner of the artwork is a schematic-style design showing the craft head on, with wings in close and attack (“X”) modes. This version of the two designs features more of the “used” look of the Star Wars universe that was ultimately adopted. The ship appears to be flying in space toward a moon-like planet with a barren surface showing crater impacts. From the collection of Cantwell, who was among the first approached by Lucas to work on the original Star Wars film back in 1974. Cantwell was asked to head up ILM, but he did not want to be tied down to a long-term obligation at that time. Cantwell's most notable contribution was working closely with Lucas on the spaceship designs for Star Wars : A New Hope (now known as Episode IV). Cantwell was provided with “Copy #4” of the screenplay, then titled “Adventures of The Starkiller (episode one); The Star Wars.” Cantwell is known as the creator of the first and original prototype models and designs of the X-Wing, Y-Wing, Tie Fighter, Star Destroyer, Death Star, Landspeeder, Sandcrawler, and Millennium Falcon as well as the T-16 Skyhopper that Luke Skywalker is seen playing with in the film. What has just recently been discovered is that in addition to the models, in pre-production discussions, Cantwell created full-color illustrations of some of those same ships prior to creating the models. This mixed media illustration was done predominantly with colored pencil with multilayered sections glued onto illustrative backgrounds, akin to an animation cell. In his youth, Cantwell studied both in arts and sciences and thus worked with UCLA to create the university's animation degree and was their first animation graduate; he also worked and trained with Disney animators. This is one of the eight original illustrations created by Cantwell for Lucas in realizing his vision of Star Wars .

  PROVENANCE From the Collection of Colin Cantwell

  Approximately 13 by 10 inches

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