Sold - Fighting Vehicles cover - John Young 1971 pub. 1974. Chieftain tank

SOLD - I’ll also include the original book too!

Artist: John Young (1930-2015)
Title: Fighting Vehicles
Medium: Acrylic on board
Size: Image size 382mm x 530mm
Signed: no. Written in pencil in the left corner is ‘MPGC’, the date ‘24-8-71’, and then some indistinct text.
Notes: Wraparound cover for ‘All Sorts of Fighting Vehicles’ by John Blake, published by Hamlyn in 1974. On the back cover it states ‘The illustration shows vehicles from NATO countries engaged upon an exercise’. Young also illustrated the interior images too.
On the front is a Chieftain tank with the Equipment Registration Mark of 03 EB 35, which started life in 01/05/1967 as a Chieftain Mk 2 and served with the Royal Armoured Corps centre at Bovington, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, 15/19th Kings Own Hussars and 1st Royal Tank Regiment [info online].

Young is primarily known as an aviation artist. In 1960, after having established a career in illustration for many aviation manufacturers, airlines, air forces, and publishers, Young went freelance to further develop his talents and move towards the world of fine art. Young's work has exhibited in the inaugural and subsequent exhibitions of the Society of Aviation Artists, now known as the Guild of Aviation Artists. Forty-five of Young's original paintings are displayed in the R.A.F. Museum in Hendon and countless others are in private and corporate collections in the U.S. and England. John Young's stature as an aviation artist is unrivalled. He was awarded the Guild Medal of Aviation Artists in 1983, and has in addition won many other prizes.