"MINT! 1978 Peter Parnall Signed Limited Edition Print - Dead-End Mole - 359/1500 DESCRIPTION - Peter Parnall Humorous artwork features a mole digging underground & hitting a \"dead-end\" boulder The edition number \"359/1500\" and artist Peter Parnall's signature are signed in pencil below the image Peter Parnall was born in Syracuse, New York on May 23, 1936. He was raised in a little town called Willow Springs in the Mojave Desert. He went to Cornell in 1954 because he wanted to become a veterinarian, but got pneumonia and failed his freshman mid-terms. After leaving Cornell he went west to train horses. When his father's birthday came around he drew him a picture of a horse. His father hung it on the wall and told him he should go back to school for art. He attended the Pratt Institute for two years, until he got bored and left. He had a freelance advertising business (with clients including Mr. Potato Head and G.I. Joe), which he enjoyed but eventually \"got tired of convincing people they should buy stuff they don’t need. Works He has illustrated over eighty books written by others and has authored and self-illustrated several books of his own, often studies of habitats.His favorite medium is pen and ink of subjects from the natural world. Many of his works have been separately published in limited editions as signed and numbered prints. Print: approx 12 1/2\" x 12 1/2\" in"