Mark Twain (Signed) (Original)
Mark Twain (Signed) (Original)
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 19" x 12" (470mm x 300mm)
Date: 1967
Signature: Signed by artist bottom left
Code: RainerTwain
This is the Signed unique original Watercolour painting by Paul Rainer.
Who Said? "The report of my death was an exaggeration." Mark Twain in1897 in a cable from London to the Associated Press.
The painting shows Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) during his time as a Riverboat Pilot.
From Look and Learn #293 26 August 1967.
- Artist BiographyPaul Rainer (Flourished 1950s and 1960s)
Paul Rainer, an illustrator about whom not much is known. We know he was active in the 1950s in Everybody's Magazine, and in the 1960s contributed to both Bible Story and Look and Learn.
He illustrated a couple of series in Look and Learn including 'People and Plants' in 1966, the excellent 'Who Said...?' in 1967 and various others in 1968-69. Before that, he was one of the regular illustrators for Bible Story, illustrating 'The Story of the Life of Jesus' (1964).
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