All Clear Ahead (Original)

Artist: Harry Green
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 18" x 13" (465mm x 330mm)
Date: 1980
Code: GreenGoochLL

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Harry Green.

The green disc signal gives the "all clear" for a Great Western train hauled by Sultan, one of Gooch's Iron Duke locomotives, built in the middle of the 19th century. The driver and firemen had no shelter from the weather.

Top insets shows portrait of Daniel Gooch and London's Coat of Arms.

Other insets show a first class coach of the Midland Railway in the 1850s, and details of a locomotive's wheel code.

Original artwork for illustration on pages 12-13 of Look and Learn issue no 970 (11 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.