Last year the New Internationalist magazine used a famous art image of a big fish and little fishes on its cover. In a later issue the editor apologized for not crediting the artist. So he phoned Ken Sprague and talked to him, the artist said it was the first time anyone had asked permission to use the image. Sprague died weeks later. Fortunately the magazine noted a book about Sprague and after many months I tracked it down. (The fish image was Franco and the Canary Island banana pickers.)
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Green, John. Ken Sprague: People’s Artist. Hawthorn Press. UK.
Last year the New Internationalist magazine used a famous art image of a big fish and little fishes on its cover. In a later issue the editor apologized for not crediting the artist. So he phoned Ken Sprague and talked to him, the artist said it was the first time anyone had asked permission to use the image. Sprague died weeks later. Fortunately the magazine noted a book about Sprague and after many months I tracked it down. (The fish image was Franco and the Canary Island banana pickers.)
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