Artist: Reginald B Davis Medium: Gouache on Board Size: 14" x 20" (360mm x 500mm) Date: 1971 Signature: Signed by artist lower right Code: Davis5Moths
This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Reginald B Davis.
The featured creatures are The Atlas, one of the largest which comes from India as does the Cricula. The Brahma actually lives in Japan, the IO from North America, while the Comet with it's two long tails finds its home in Madagascar.
Original artwork for illustration on p81 of Tell Me Why Annual 1972.
Reginald Ben Davis (10 December 1907 - 1998; UK) A regular illustrator of nature subjects and animals for Look and Learn and Treasure. Some of his Look and Learn illustrations were collected in Animal Partnerships by Maurice Burton (1969).
Born on 10 December 1907, Davis was a commercial artist before the Second World War working for Byron Studios. After the war he became a regular artist for School Friend, drawing the adventures of castaway schoolgirl 'Jill Crusoe'. Amongst his other strips for the same paper were 'Jon of the Jungle', 'Kay of Cedar Creek', 'Phantom Ballerina' and 'Penny of Maywood Stables'.
Davis was also a regular cover artist for Schoolgirls' Picture Library from its debut in June 1957 and later illustrated text stories for Girls' Crystal in the early 1960s. From 1962 he concentrated on colour illustration work and only occasionally returned to comic strips. In the 1970s he concentrated on illustrating wildlife books. Davis lived in Liphook, Hampshire, where he died in late 1998, aged 90.
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