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Ralph McQuarrie book?

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Does anyone know if there exists a compendium of Ralph McQuarrie's conceptual artwork for all 3 OOT films? I know there are books that cover the art of Star Wars (I have The Art of ROTJ), and that McQuarrie's drawings and paintings are a large part of these, but does anyone know of any volumes that concentrate solely on McQuarrie's work? Seems to me it would also be cool if there were an annual Ralph McQuarrie Star Wars calendar, too.
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The Illustrated Star Wars universe has a lot of McQuarrie's work in it, you can probably find it for about 2 bucks on amazon for a hardcover.
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Yes, apart of The Art of Star Wars albums, which each cover one movie from the Old Trilogy (not to mention there are similar albums for the prequels) there is The Illustrated Star Wars Universe album, which focus mostly on Ralph McQuarrie's work (but adding several arts from other artists as well).

I'm completely nuts about those conceptual arts from STAR WARS, so I buy every album I can get. This reminded me to search for ROTS album

Also the official Screensavers found on starwars.com have sets of McQuarrie's paintings, but for me their prices are quite prohibitive...
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I have Empire Strikes Back sketchbook by Ralph McQuarrie, Joe Johnston & Nilo Rodis-Jamero. It came out in '79, I think:

"Incredible Original Drawings From The New Chapter In The Greatest Space Fantasy Of All Time"

It's kind of cool, some of them have a stamp with "Wonderful" on them. I'm guessing these were approved by Lucas for Empire.

I can maybe scan some of the art if you really want it.
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You can look here: His own web site.

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If it wasn't for Ralph McQuarrie's conceptual designs, who knows if we'd have Star Wars today. From my understanding, his art work helped sell the movie to the 20th Century FOX. They got a better understanding of what George Lucas was trying to pull off from his wonderful designs and concepts.
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There was an artbox with an intro by kevin j. anderson from chronicle books.
the metal cards with pre-production art, do not know what company put them out.
His website sells an exclusive dvd, and has most of his stuff up.
Of course their are the three original art of star wars books,
plus the three sketchbooks, and the 3 portfolios put out by dell rey which are now collector's items.
There are also three slideshows of his preproduction artwork on the definitive edition laserdisc from 1993.
there is some material on the bonus disk from the new official dvd release, like the trailer for empire which uses only mcquarrie artwork with narration. Plus his art for the unreleased poster for the star wars, it is in a book i have called from star wars to indiana jones. His art for the 1976 pre release paperback for star wars, and for splinter of the mind's eye. and there also are illustrated editions of the novelizations of empire and jedi, with sketches and the empire strikes back notebook.
the art of star wars universe co-written by kevin j. anderson has some other stuff. one sketch is in star wars the magic of myth by mary henderson. their is also the new cinema of george lucas book, quite expensive, and the star wars chronicles also quite expensive. a wealth of materials exists in the lucasfilm archives, that has never been seen or released and probalbly never will. Just like we will never get to see the rough cut of a new hope, or read all the screenplays/ story treatments that are all locked away by lucas. this is including the so called non existing original cuts of the films, and the treatments for episodes 7-9 which has been verified to exist but he insists that they don't, oh yeah and those so called original treatments for episodes 1-3 which are buried because he never had them, yeah right.

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Until the recent GREAT REBELLION, the JEDI BENDU were the most feared warriors in the universe. For one hundred thousand years, generations of JEDI perfected their art as the personal bodyguards of the emperor. They were the chief architects of the invincible IMPERIAL SPACE FORCE which expanded the EMPIRE across the galaxy, from the celestial equator to the farthest reaches of the GREAT RIFT.

Now these legendary warriors are all but extinct. One by one they have been hunted down and destroyed as enemies of the NEW EMPIRE by a ferocious and sinister rival warrior sect, THE KNIGHTS OF SITH.

I'd love to see those original treatments, I must admit that reading stuff like the Star Wars story synopsis (1973) was a lot of fun - well, most of the early drafts are real c**p, but it's still somewhat enjoyable

LOL, imagine stormtroopers with lightsabres and shields (see: script & pre-production artwork), they look like riot police
I saw the original theatrical release of the Old Trilogy on the big screen and I'm proud of it...
How did I accomplish that (considering my age) is my secret...