Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid hold up a train (Original)
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 9" x 12" (230mm x 300mm)
Date: 1981
Code: GreenPistolLL
This is the unique original Watercolour painting by Harry Green.
The Law of the West: "We Never Sleep..." The motto of the famous Pinkerton's National Detective Agency.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (vignettes) hold up a Union Pacific Railroad train.
The gun featured is the famous Smith & Wesson .32 which was popular as it could easily be hidden.
Original artwork from Look and Learn no. 1033 (26 December 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.
Source: From biographical notes by Steve Holland