Artist: G W Backhouse Medium: Gouache on Board Size: 14" x 18" (350mm x 460mm) Date: 1962 Signature: Signed by artist lower right Code: BackhouseCobra
This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by G W Backhouse.
Old 'Blacknose' Strikes to Kill. A fictionalised account of an encounter between these two famous adversaries, reminiscent of a similar encounter described in the short story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling.
A very early Backhouse Look and Learn painting for Look and Learn no. 39 (13 October 1962). Also unusual is that this has a clear prominent signature by the artist. The artwork was later re-used in the book Wonders of Nature published in 1969.
Geoffrey William Backhouse (16 November 1903 - 1 August 1978; born Holywell, Flintshire, Wales) In 1927, Backhouse began drawing Strongheart the Magnificent for Comic Life, the comic strip adventures of a magnificent German Shepherd modelled on a canine Hollywood film star. Strongheart, one of the earliest adventure strips to regularly appear in British comics, continued his adventures when Comic Life was relaunched as My Favourite and would continue to appear, drawn by a number of different artists, until 1949.
Shortly before the war, Backhouse drew The Stolen King for Comic Cuts and Buffalo Bill for Butterfly. After the war, Backhouse illustrated a number of books for Collins, including Mr. Mole's Circus by Douglas Collins and a number of books by Denis Cleaver, including Pongo the Terrible, On the Air, On the Films and A Dog's Life, which featured the adventures of two dogs named Pongo and Peter. Backhouse's association with Collins also included illustrations for The Children's Picture Dictionary (1951) and modern editions of Alice In Wonderland and Enid Blyton's Shadow the Sheepdog.
Backhouse's expertise at drawing animals and nature made him the perfect choice to draw a colourful feature strip starring George Cansdale for Eagle in 1954, following Cansdale's trips around the countryside, and the adventures of Tammy the Sheepdog for Swift (1955-58). Backhouse subsequently contributed many wildlife illustrations to Look and Learn and Treasure, appearing in the former from 1962 onwards. Some of his most notable contributions were for a series of short animal stories written by F. St. Mars, Alan C. Jenkins and F. G. Turnbull that appeared in 1967-68. He died in Tollington Park, London N4, in 1978.
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