Sumer - Cradle of Civilisation (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Richard Hook
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 22" x 15" (550mm x 370mm)
Date: 1974
Signature: Signed by artist lower right
Code: HookSumer

This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Richard Hook.

Construction of reed houses at a riverside village in Sumer in what is now Southern Iraq. Sumer was an ancient civilization founded in the Mesopotamia region of the Fertile Crescent situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Known for their innovations in language, governance, architecture and more, Sumerians are considered the creators of civilization as modern humans understand it. Their control of the region lasted for almost 2,000 years before the Babylonians took charge in 2004 B.C.

Originally published in World of Wonder issue 238, 1974.

• Artist Biography
  Richard 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.