The Law of the West: Quick-Draw Justice (Original)
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 11" x 11" (290mm x 280mm)
Date: 1981
Code: GreenFightLL
This is the unique original Watercolour painting by Harry Green.
The court case of Temple Lee Houston turned into a running gunfight; inset, portrait of Judge Roy Bean who dispensed tough justice from his saloon (right).
Original artwork from Look and Learn no. 1030 (5 December 1981). Note the unusual technique of the fading from colour to black and white on the left side of the main image.
- 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