Helen Haywood

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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]

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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 Her experiences were recounted in an unpublished novel, Childhood in Chile.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 [3] [4] and binding paintings. [5] 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. [6]

She died in Bournemouth, England in 1995.

Selected works

Illustrated by Helen Haywood

Written by Isobel St Vincent

  • Wanda the Panda (1939) [7] [8] OCLC   179178742 , 314735807
  • Woodland Verse (1940) [9] [10] OCLC   78401748 , 504479890 , 774488312
  • Figgles Frog Sees Life (1940) [11] OCLC   179178649
  • Sandy's Seven Tails (1943) [12] OCLC   811586967 , 558854281
  • All A-Growing: the adventures of two young gardeners (1943) [12] OCLC   30375749 , 504479463
  • The Helen Haywood Colour Book (1944) [13] OCLC   179178660
  • British Butterflies and Moths (1952) [14] OCLC   30203867 , 877567361

Written by Geoffrey Ford

Written by others

Written and illustrated by Helen Haywood

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References

  1. ↑ Weber, Jeff, Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists & Binders, Los Angeles, 2010, pp. pp.169-174.
  2. ↑ Connelly, William. "The Life and Work of Helen Haywood (1907-1995)." IBIS Journal 3 - Diverse Talents (2009): 98-143.
  3. ↑ Weber, Jeff, Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists & Binders, Los Angeles, 2010, pp. pp.169-174.
  4. ↑ "Rare Books: Burke Fore-edge". Columbus College of Art and Design. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  5. ↑ Gertz, Stephen J. (3 October 2012). "The Binding Paintings of Helen R. Haywood". Booktryst. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  6. ↑ Weber, Jeff, Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists & Binders, Los Angeles, 2010, pp. pp.169-174.
  7. ↑ Critic (8 December 1939). "Some New Books - Interesting Reading for West-Country Folk". Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. p. 5. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
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  12. 1 2 "For Younger Readers - Forest Folk; Nature Study". The Scotsman. 25 November 1943. p. 7. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
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