James Watt (Original)

Artist: Frank Marsden Lea
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 8" x 10" (200mm x 245mm)
Date: 1962
Code: LeaWattsLL

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Frank Marsden Lea.

James Watt: The Man Who Harnessed Steam. This is a fine piece of very early Look and Learn art by an artist who deserves to be better known.

Original artwork from Look and Learn no. 41 (27 October 1962; reused in Look and Learn no. 519, 25 December 1971).

• Artist Biography
  Frank Marsden Lea (born 1910; UK)
  Frank Marsden Lea, born 1910. A talented artist and illustrator who, inter alia, designed posters for London County Council Tramways 1928-1932 and painted many illustrations for Look and Learn during the 1960s.
  
  He trained at the Nottingham Art School; 1916-1917 and also attended Manchester School of Art.