LexX said:

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timdiggerm wrote: I didn't think the paintings in that book were made for that book?

From The Art of Ralph McQuarrie: pg.297

Quote:"In 1995, I was asked to work on a book titled The Illustrated Star Wars Universe. I really wasn't sure if I could do it, because I was sort of through with Star Wars. I looked at some of the things I didn't gt a chance to do during the films that I thought I could finally complete, and I signed up for it. It was really quite a pleasure. These are a few of my favorite paintings from that book.

The "Jawa swap-meet on Tatooine" is the second of the images shown.

You always learn something. What other paintings did he paint in the 90s? I thought he only did some art for toys.

Too many to post... but I would say about 70% in that book was new material.

When Lucas announced the prequels back in '95, McQuarrie was also invited to head up the design team once again but as we all know he ultimately declined to participate as he thought Doug Chiang was more than sufficient for the job. But some of the work he did for that book ended up being used in both the '97 Special Edition and the prequels.

And don't forget his Santa Chewie:

Maybe we will see him in Episode VII. ;)