Galapagos - The Island Lost in Time (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Harry Green
Medium: Gouache on Acid-free Board
Size: 18" x 12" (450mm x 308mm)
Date: 1981
Signature: Signed by artist in biro on reverse of board
Code: GreenGalapagosLL

This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Harry Green.

A fantastic and very detailed illustration art board painted in gouache for an article depicting the rich and vibrant wildlife of The Galapagos.

The artist delights in detailing the Land Iguanas, Giant Turtles, Fauna and the all important variety of Beaks which Charles Darwin studied intensely in his Origin of Species.

This appeared as a double page spread in the British comic Look and Learn on 17th January 1981.

• 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.