Hiawatha (Signed) (Original)

Artist: F Stocks May
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 18" x 25" (450mm x 625mm)
Date: 1950
Signature: Signed by artist bottom left
Code: MayHiawatha

This is the Signed unique original Watercolour painting by F Stocks May.

Hiawatha (also known as Ayenwatha, Aiionwatha, or Haiëñ'wa'tha is a legendary Native American leader and co-founder of the Iroquois confederacy. Depending on the version of the narrative, Hiawatha lived sometime between the 15th and 16th centuries and was a leader of the Onondaga or the Mohawk, or both. According to some versions, he was born an Onondaga, but also adopted into the Mohawk.

Full page painting from The Boys Book Of Heroes which includes Heroes of History, Heroes of Discovery and Invention, Heroes of Science, Heroes of the Second World War, and Heroes of Sport. Illustrated in full colour by F Stocks May.

• Artist Biography
  F Stocks May (flourished 1950s)
  Illustrated many older children's books during the 1950s including 'The Boys Book Of Heroes' and 'Heroes Through the Ages'.
  
  Illustrated the serialisation of the Lone Pine book 'Seven White Gates' in the comic Mickey Mouse Weekly between December 1953 and March 1954.