Background
Haworth was born in Queenston, South Africa.
Haworth was born in Queenston, South Africa.
Haworth was born in Queenston, South Africa. She studied at the Royal College of Art in London, England under Professor William Rothenstein, Dora Billington and Eric Gill, specializing in ceramics. She received her degree of Associate Royal Cambrian Academy from the University of London, England.
She immigrated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1923.
Education and training Private life Haworth lived a comfortable life in the fashionable upscale district of Rosedale in Toronto. Her and Peter"s residence was often a mecca for artists holding formal meetings and small exhibitions in their large home. Career and official commissions From 1913 - 1968 she worked as a painter in watercolour, oils and later in acrylic.
She also used standard clay for her pottery.
Haworth preferred landscape themes and waterscape themes but also ventured practice in non-objective paintings, some on a very large scale. Most of her paintings post-1950 were created on masonite and often signed on the front and verso.
Often with an artist"s paper label. Howarth was the first honorary president
Both Peter and Bobs Haworth made illustrations for Kingdom of the Saguenay (1936) by Marius Barbeau.
The Haworths also collaborated on illustrating James Edward Le Rossignol"s The Habitant Merchant (1939). Portraits by other artists 1940 - "Self Portrait with Hat". College Corbet Collection of Canadian Women Artists.
Exhibitions Haworth was a regular and prolific exhibitor with such institutions as the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (Radio Corporation of America), Ontario Society of Artists (The Optical Society), Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC), Canadian Group of Painters (CGP) among other formal and informal art groups and organizations.
Death and legacy Haworth died peacefully at her home in Toronto. At her bequest she left her entire art archives and remainder of her art works to Queen"s University.
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She co-founded the Canadian Group of Painters with Yvonne McKague Housser, Isabel McLaughlin and members of the Group of Seven. In 1936 Bobs Haworth was one of the founding members of the Canadian Guild of Potters, along with Nunzia Doctorate"Angelo, Robert Montgomery.