Maoris to the Rescue (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 15" x 19" (375mm x 480mm)
Date: 1970
Signature: Signed by artist bottom left
Code: McBrideMaoriLL

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

The Heroism of a Maori Woman. Risking her own life, Huria struggled through the boiling sea to run a line from the stranded brig to the shore.

Then, when the line was secure, she and two Maoris helped the ship's crew and its one passenger as they, exhausted and half-drowned, struggled along the makeshift lifeline.

Original painting used to illustrate a story in an unknown issue of Look and Learn. Professionally matted and framed.

• 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.