Wally Wood - George Washington Carver Bio illustration

Pen & ink, with red ink as second color. Art goes to the top 3 edges of an 8.5 x 11 illustration board, scorched along the edges from a 2004 house fire. Lines from art director in blue pencil: 'Woman's head to large' & 'Make lizard about half as big'.

WALLACE WOOD rough for an illustration that appeared in one of the 'Childhoods of Famous Americans' series of hardcover books published in the 1950's, this one devoted to George Washington Carver, reprinted many times over the years.