Railway Rivals (Original)

Artist: Harry Green
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 18" x 13" (460mm x 320mm)
Date: 1980
Code: GreenRailwayRivalsLL

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Harry Green.

Passengers in their bowler hats wait for a local train as a Great Northern express thunders through, drawn by one of the famous Stirling "singles". The picture also shows the badges of the Great Northern (top) and Midland Railways.

The insets show the London and North Western Precedent Class locomotive (left) and a Kirtley freight engine, with its three pairs of driving wheels, in the red Midland livery.

This is the original artwork for illustration on pages 16-17 of Look and Learn issue no 971 (18 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.