The Gloucester Sea Serpent (Signed) (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 14" x 19" (355mm x 480mm)
Date: 1972
Signature: Signed by artist lower right
Code: HookSerpentLL
This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Richard Hook.
Folk Stories of America: The Travelling Monster. Sea Serpent of Gloucester. The Loch Ness monster at one time had a cousin in North America, not far from Boston.
From 1638 onwards there were multiple sightings that evolved into a tourist boom in the early 19th Century. This is the right hand panel of what was published as a double-page spread.
Original artwork from Look and Learn no. 555 (2 September 1972).
- Artist BiographyRichard Hook (1938 - January 2010; UK)
Richard Hook was born in 1938 and trained at Reigate College of Art. After national service with 1st Bn, Queen's Royal Regiment, he became art editor of the much-praised magazine Finding Out during the 1960s.
He then went on to work as a freelance illustrator, earning an international reputation for his deep knowledge of Native American material culture.
He provided many illustrations, predominantly scenes from British history and daily life, for Look and Learn magazine during the 1960s and 1970s and illustrated more than 50 titles for Osprey, contributing to these books for over 30 years. Sadly Richard passed away in January 2010.
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