02621cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000320011324500210014526400510016630000470021733600260026433700260029033800360031649000670035250000310041950801030045052013810055353400680193465300200200265300180202265300240204070000190206483000670208385600660215085600430221678693UtSlPG20260610134827.0mcr n260607r20261953utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aHarrison, Harry,d1925-201213aAn artist's life 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Rocket Stories, September 1953 (Vol. 1, No. 3.).  aRelease date is 2026-05-16  aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Luminist Archive)  aAn artist's life by Harry Harrison is a science fiction short story written in the mid-20th century. It centers on art and perception, following a painter whose hunt for an authentically “alien” vision exposes a concealed extraterrestrial presence operating on Earth.

The story follows Brent Dalgreen, a famed artist weakened and dying from radiation after a year painting on the Moon. At the Metropolitan Museum he detects an unsettling, nonhuman sensibility in an autumn landscape by Arthur Di Costa, then meets Di Costa and his wife, noticing the same uncanny slant in a portrait and suspecting an inhuman perspective behind it. Shadowing Di Costa, Brent witnesses a cryptic note trigger a trance and follows him to a hidden underground office, where a powerful telepathic administrator reveals the truth: Earth is used as a covert sanitarium by an advanced alien civilization, and Di Costa—recreated in human form—is a congenitally feeble-minded “outpatient” whose early alien impressions seep into his paintings. When Brent tries to resist, the director subdues him and decides to “dispose” of the risk humanely by relocating him—after curing his radiation damage—to another sanitarium world with a chlorine atmosphere, leaving him unconscious but oddly hopeful about the new colors he might paint there. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Space Publications, Inc., 1953  aScience fiction  aShort stories  aPainters -- Fiction1 aBerwin, Milton 0aProduced from Rocket Stories, September 1953 (Vol. 1, No. 3.).4 uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/SF/RS_1953_09.pdf40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78693