Artist: Neville Dear Medium: Gouache on Board Size: 23" x 16" (590mm x 400mm) Date: 1974 Code: DearEZPickinsLL
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Neville Dear.
Indian snipers during the Bluff War, or Posey War, of 1915. Men plunged from their saddles as the hail of fire cut into them from hidden enemies in the high cliffs. Soon the column was a confused mess of frightened riders.
From Look and Learn 673 (7 December 1974). Please note the vertical crease through the image where the art board was folded. This is reflected in the price.
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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