Look what I found! It's a scan of the original art for the September 16, 1978 edition of
TV Guide magazine, painted by
David Edward Byrd." I've made fun of this cover before for the artist's transparent attempt to pass off
2001: A Space Odyssey's iconic
Discovery spacecraft as the mighty Colonial Battlestar
Galactica -- but looking at it again, it's actually a pretty nifty painting (although the colors on this scan do differ considerably from those on the published cover).
And here's the art as it appeared on the actual magazine cover. This really brings back memories, and illustrates just what a big event
Battlestar Galactica was for 70's network television.....
ADDENDUM: Thanks to
Space: 1970 reader/
Galactica blogger "aficionadofan," here's a
link to the painting on artist David Byrd's own site.
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