The First Phone Call was a Cry for Help (Original)

The First Phone Call was a Cry for Help art by Jack Keay
The First Phone Call was a Cry for Help art by Jack Keay

The First Phone Call was a Cry for Help (Original)

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Artist: Jack Keay
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 20" x 10" (520mm x 260mm)
Date: 1964
Code: KeayJackPhoneLL

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Jack Keay.

First Phone Call was a Cry for Help! On it's first appearance the art was reversed for publication and only the image of Alexander Graham Bell was used.

Original artwork for illustration on p9 of Look and Learn issue no 135 15th August 1964. The article was reprinted in Look and Learn #521 published 8th January 1972. This time the art was printed as shown and in full over two pages. From the series They Made a Better World.
  • Artist Biography
    Jack "John" Edwin Keay (10 May 1907 - 1999; King's Norton, UK)
    Artist who contributed a variety of illustrations and covers to Look and Learn. When he signed his work, it was usually as “Jack Keay”. Jack Keay was born in King's Norton, Worcestershire, on 10 May 1907. Little is known about Keay's career, but he was a popular book cover artist who worked for Pan, Panther, Hutchinson, Fontana and Four Square in the 1957-62 period.

    Keay illustrated a number of books in the 1970s and 1980s, including The Change of Life by Muriel E. Landau (1971), Gunfighters of the Wild West by Eric Inglefield (1978), American Civil War by Philip Clark (1988), American War of Independence by Philip Clark (1988) and Viking Explorers by Rupert Matthews (1989). He died in Hounslow, London, in 1999, aged 92.

    Jack Keay is not to be mistaken for John R. Keay (qv) who also contributed to Look and Learn.
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