What Is A Gargoyle (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Harry Green
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 9" x 9" (235mm x 235mm)
Date: c. 1980
Signature: Signed by artist on reverse
Code: GreenGargoyle

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

A gargoyle looks down over Montmartre in Paris. The accompanying article explained the origins of these curious statues.

In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between.

Signed by the artist with the agency name and address on the reverse.

From an article published in an issue of Look and Learn yet to be determined.

• 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.