Bigger and Faster (Original)
Artist: Harry Green
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 18" x 12" (455mm x 310mm)
Date: 1980
Code: GreenEngineLL
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Harry Green.
The large picture shows a Great Northern express leaving King's Cross.
Top right inset shows a terrier class tank locomotive, and the inset underneath the London and North Western railway's superheated George V engine.
The left inset shows a Midland Railway Johnson 4-4-0 introduced in 1902.
Original artwork for illustration on pages 16-17 of Look and Learn issue no 972 (25 October 1980).
- Artist Biography
Harry Green (born 1920; UK)
A little-known artist, Harry Green contributed extensively to Look and Learn in the 1970s and 1980s, illustrating a variety of subjects ranging from historical buildings to football. However, it was as a transport illustrator that he really made his mark in the 1980 with the series "Britain's Railway Wonders". Green also contributed illustrations to Speed & Power in the 1970s.
His book illustrations include Architecture (1969), Architecture: The Great Art of Building (1969), Discovery of Australia (1969) and Discovery of South America (1970), some of which were jointly illustrated by Gwen Green who was also a prolific children's educational book illustrator.
Source: From biographical notes by Steve Holland