Artist: Neville Dear Medium: Gouache on Board Size: 12" x 12" (300mm x 300mm) Date: 1973 Code: DearSkins
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Neville Dear.
Local tappers arriving at Fort Albany near Hudson Bay arriving to trade their skins. Neville Dear captures the feeling of this strange, isolated and dangerous existence.
From a series about far flung outposts of the British Empire and the lives of the men who lived there.
Published in Look and Learn issue 580, 24th February 1973.
Neville Dear; UK A prolific artist for Look and Learn, illustrating a wide variety of historical subjects and various series including 'Disasters That Shook the World' (1963), 'By the Rivers of Babylon' (1964), 'They Made Headlines' (1964), 'Epic Stories of the Iron Road' (1965) and others. In 1949, Dear and two other students from the Royal College of Art were commissioned to decorate the walls of the children's section of the Chelsea Public Library.
In the 1950s he began producing illustrations for William Collins, including work for Collins' Magazine, Collins Boys' Annual and books, including Showell Styles' 'Tiger Patrol' series.
As well as his magazine illustrations for Look and Learn, Ranger, Argosy, Picture Post and others, Dear also worked for Oxford University Press, Wheaton, Hodder & Stoughton, Corgi, and Eyre Methuen. With others he illustrated The Hamlyn Bible for Children (1974) and he was a regular illustrator for Reader's Digest's condensed books.
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