Helen Haywood
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Helen Riviere Haywood (December 28, 1907 – 1995) was an English artist and writer, known for her illustrations of children's books and her fore-edge and binding paintings. She was the daughter of Mabel Riviere Calklin (b.1875) and her father was Arthur Haywood. She was the great-granddaughter of the noted British binder, Robert Riviere (d.1882).[1]
Early life
Haywood was born in England in 1907,[2] but was taken as a child to Chile, where her father, an engineer, worked on the trans-Andean railway. She remained in Chile until she was approximately 15 years old. Her experiences were recounted in an unpublished novel, Childhood in Chile.
Career
Her books were published by Thomas Nelson Ltd through the 1950s and 1960s. She created a series of books based around the character Peter Tiggywig and friends.
Other work includes Master Mouse the Madcap (1958), and Animal Playtime and Animal Worktime which appeared in the Look with Mother series, and a paperback series for children published by Nelson including 'Aesop's Fables'(1965) 'Brer Rabbit' and the 'Water Babies' (abridged)
Miss Haywood was a keen student of science and an amateur naturalist and anthropologist. Many of the books she illustrated for the publisher Hutchinson & Co., London, were keenly observed and scrupulously accurate depictions of plants, birds and animals. When commissioned to do illustrations for a children's book on dinosaurs, her research into the skin colors she subsequently chose for her dinosaur illustrations was cited by the Royal Academy of Sciences.
Haywood was also an important practitioner of fore-edge painting, where a watercolor painting is applied to the fanned edge of an older book [1][3] and binding paintings.[4] She became acquainted with the art forms through an uncle who was associated with the Bayntun-Riviere Bindery of Bath. She did several fore-edge and double fore-edge paintings on commission every year from the 1930s to the 1940s for often for Inman's Books, an antiquarian book dealer in New York City. She probably stopped painting for-edge paintings in the late 1940s, putting the majority of her art work in her publishing of illustrated children's books.[1]
She died in Bournemouth, England in 1995.
Selected works
Illustrated by Helen Haywood
Written by Isobel St Vincent
- Wanda the Panda (1939)[5][6] Template:Catalog lookup link
- Woodland Verse (1940)[7][8] Template:Catalog lookup link
- Figgles Frog Sees Life (1940)[9] Template:Catalog lookup link
- Sandy's Seven Tails (1943)[10] Template:Catalog lookup link
- All A-Growing: the adventures of two young gardeners (1943)[10] Template:Catalog lookup link
- The Helen Haywood Colour Book (1944)[11] Template:Catalog lookup link
- British Butterflies and Moths (1952)[12] Template:Catalog lookup link
Written by Geoffrey Ford
- Hedgehog's Holiday (1938) Template:Catalog lookup link[13]
Written by others
- Ducks, geese, and swans, by Oscar J. Merne (1974)[14] Template:Catalog lookup link
- The Tortoise and the Ducks and other Aesop Fables (1963)
Written and illustrated by Helen Haywood
- The mouse that ran (1926)[15][16] Template:Catalog lookup link
- The Happy Tree (1951)[17] Template:Catalog lookup link
- Peter Tiggywig Grows Up (1955) Template:Catalog lookup link
- Peter Tiggywig Goes Camping (1955) Template:Catalog lookup link
- Peter Tiggywig Runs Away (1956) Template:Catalog lookup link
- Peter Tiggywig's Wonderful Train (1957) Template:Catalog lookup link
- Peter Tiggywig At School (1958) Template:Catalog lookup link
- Peter Tiggywig At The Fair (1958) Template:Catalog lookup link
- Peter Tiggywig's Toy-shop (1958) Template:Catalog lookup link
- Peter Tiggywig At Sea (1959) Template:Catalog lookup link
- Peter Tiggywig At The Picnic (1960, 1961) Template:Catalog lookup link*Peter Tiggywig's Birthday Party (1961) Template:Catalog lookup link
- The New Noah's Ark of Rare Animals (1964)[18] Template:Catalog lookup link
- The days of the dinosaurs (1964, 1965)[19] Template:Catalog lookup link
References
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- ↑ a b c Weber, Jeff, Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists & Binders, Los Angeles, 2010, pp. pp.169-174.
- ↑ Connelly, William. "The Life and Work of Helen Haywood (1907-1995)." IBIS Journal 3 - Diverse Talents (2009): 98-143.
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