The World Goes Underground (Original)

Artist: Harry Green
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 18" x 12" (450mm x 300mm)
Date: 1980
Code: GreenMoscowTube

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Harry Green.

After the success of the London Underground many other countries developed underground railways in their major cities. The main image here shows the Moscow Metro which was built on a monumental scale.

Top right is a train from the Paris Metro famous for its quiet running due to the rubber compound wheels.

Top left an old and a "modern" London Underground sign and an iconic Paris Metro sign.

Originally published in Look and Learn issue no 949 (29 March 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.