Dawson City (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 26" x 14" (655mm x 350mm)
Date: 1970
Signature: Signed by artist lower right
Code: McBrideDawsonCityLL

This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Angus McBride.

A characteristically humorous depiction of the frontier settlement of Dawson City, presumably on a rather loose Saturday night. Dawson City in the Yukon was the epicentre of the Klondike Gold Rush between 1896 and 1899.

Inset is a depiction of a steam paddle boat on the Yukon River which flows through the town. The painting was used for an article about the Gold Rush that was published in World of Wonder issue 40, 1970.

• Artist Biography
  Angus McBride (1931 - 2007; UK & South Africa)
  Angus McBride is one of the world's most respected historical and fantasy illustrators, and contributed to numerous books, magazines and articles, including the classic Look & Learn, JRR Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, and more than 70 Osprey titles in the past three decades. Born in 1931 of Highland parents, but orphaned as a child, he was educated at Canterbury Cathedral Choir School. He worked in advertising agencies from 1947, and after National Service, emigrated to South Africa where he lived for several years, before relocating to Ireland before his sad demise in 2007.