Yesterday and Today (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 6" x 7" (140mm x 190mm)
Date: 1979
Code: HowatPolice
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Andrew Howat.
Old and new - the traditional colorful dress of the Navajo warrior contrasts with the attire of the modern policeman.
The art was produced by Andrew Howat to illustrate a feature on the frequently difficult relations between the Navajo and White America.
Originally published in Look and Learn issue 928, 3rd November 1979.
- Artist BiographyAndrew Howat (Born 1927; Hale, UK)
Born in Hale, Cheshire, Howat studied life drawing, anatomy and painting at Manchester School of Art.
Andrew Howat has contributed a wide variety of work to Look and Learn. In the late 1970s, he was one of the key artists providing features on the front and rear covers, including the miscellaneous strip 'Strange Facts' and episodes of the 'Land of Legend' and 'Crowning Glory' series.
After his move to London he worked at a commercial studio before linking up with fellow artists Bob Robins and Gordon Davidson to produce illustrations for magazines and books. The trio often signed their work 'RDH'.
Howat later worked for various London advertising agencies as well as freelancing as a designer of greetings cards. He continues to design cards featuring landscapes and views of London as well as to paint landscapes in watercolour and pastel around London and Hertfordshire.
One of his paintings of the Palace of Westminster was used as a Christmas card by the House of Commons in 1999. He currently lives in north London.
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