Eat Your Boots (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 10" x 13" (250mm x 330mm)
Date: 1968
Code: DearYukonLL
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Neville Dear.
An atmospheric painting that depicts the arctic struggle of two men, Dr Isaac Stringer Bishop of Selkirk in the Yukon and his missionary companion C F Johnston got into serious trouble in Canada's arctic wilderness after a series of misadventures due to bad luck and worse weather; with bitter cold, snow and fog and a mountain they ended up climbing twice.
They eventually made it to the safety of a settlement but only after being forced to eat their seal-skin snow boots.
Their story was told in Look and Learn issue 357, 16th November 1968.
- Artist BiographyNeville 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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