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DESCRIPTION: Up for your consideration is a pair of wonderful vintage portraits by DON LAWRENCE. Signed lower right "Don Lawrence". Attributed to · Donald Southam Lawrence, artist, born November 17 1928; died December 29 2003.
TWO PORTRAITS ARE INCLUDED - The first one is a French man looking to the side and is an original oil painting on masonite (16x19 framed, 9x12 unframed)..this one is not signed but guaranteed to be by Don Lawrence. The second bigger piece is of a man holding his chin in thought (24x28 framed, 16x20 unframed)..this piece is oil on canvas panel, signed lower right, "Don Lawrence". On the back reads, "Jerry Hardy - Santa Monica"...we believe this is a Hollywood actor - portrait is from the late 1960s-1970 period. Purchased in California.
Condition: Both are in excellent condition with all original components. Some wear to the frames due to age.
Don Lawrence
Obituary
Comic-book artist who brought the Trigan empire and Captain Marvel to life
Paul Gravett
Wednesday January 21, 2004
The artist Don Lawrence, who has died aged 75, toiled for more than two decades in anonymity - and for meagre payment - in British adventure comics, most famously painting two colour pages each week of The Rise And Fall Of The Trigan Empire from 1965 to 1976. But he found recognition and reward in Europe, illustrating the 23 albums of the science-fiction series Storm, which has sold more than 2m copies worldwide, most recently in translation in Poland and Indonesia.
In 1953, when DC Comics finally won a protracted lawsuit claiming plagiarism of Superman, Fawcett had no choice but to cancel the titles. Rather than drop their British editions, Miller engaged Anglo the following year to create virtual lookalikes, and Lawrence contributed greatly to the success of Marvelman, Young Marvelman and The Marvelman Family, arguably the first British superheroes.
Paid only £1 per completed page, Lawrence quickly learned to simplify his rendering to achieve the cartoon look of Marvelman, and could turn out up to 10 pages a week. In a less minimalist style, he also drew cowboys Daniel Boone, Wyatt Earp and Davy Crockett. In 1958, he left Anglo for better rates elsewhere. He developed his meticulous linework and clear story-telling on Billy The Kid and Pony Express, and his ink washes gave an added realism to his strip version of the television series Wells Fargo.
During the early 1960s, reflecting Hollywood's taste for action movies set in ancient times, Lawrence branched out into rugged, historical sagas, featuring a former British slave character, Olac the Gladiator, for Tiger, as well as the axe-wielding heir Karl the Viking, and the Saxon strongman Maroc the Mighty, written by Michael Moorcock, both for Lion.
On the basis of these, he was commissioned to paint a comic story (written by Mike Butterworth), to be printed in full-colour photogravure for the new weekly Ranger in 1965. With its sweeping vistas, battles, and vivid heroes and villains, The Trigan Empire (written by Mike Butterworth) chronicled the blond warrior Trigo's rise to power on the planet Elekton. Continuing weekly in the children's educational part-work, Look And Learn, for 11 years, Lawrence illuminated 950 hyper-realistic pages of this blend of Roman-style epic and science fiction fantasy.
While maintaining this demanding output, he still found time to draw The Adventures Of Tarzan, Gerry Anderson's puppet series Fireball XL5 (for TV Century 21) and Thunderbirds Are Go (for the Daily Mail), as well as the titillating Carrie for Mayfair magazine.
Unlike other publishing spheres, British comics paid their artists only once for their work, and they received nothing for reprints, translations or other rights. When IPC refused to raise his page rate, or pay royalties, for the numerous foreign Trigan Empire collections, Lawrence resigned. That same afternoon, Dutch publishers Oberon offered him the contract he wanted, and he never looked back.
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