Clodagh Hope Knox Sparrow

Clodagh Hope Knox Sparrow (24 July 1905 – 28 July 1957) was a British artist best known for her railway travel and holiday posters.[1] She was frequently commissioned by the railway companies from the 1930s and into the 1950s, including work for British Railways, the Great Western Railway, London Midland and Scottish, London Transport, Southern Railway and others.[2]

Sparrow was born in Burma to a British engineer, Joseph James Knox Sparrow and his wife Ida Eliza Barbour Johnston. By 1911 the family had moved to the UK and were living in West Division, Carrickfergus, Antrim, Northern Ireland.[1] During World War II she worked for the Norwegian High Command, producing maps used for air raids on occupied Norway. After the war she studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art.[3]

London exhibitions of her work were held at the Royal Academy of Art in 1938 and 1948,[1] at the Cooling Galleries, New Bond Street in 1949,[4] and at Leighton House in 1954.[5] Examples can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Railway Museum, and frequently come up for auction.

She was a member of the Arts Society of Paddington.[5] Her addresses in London included 21 Royal Crescent (late 1930s) and Clanricarde Gardens, W2 (late 1940s and early 1950s). From 1953 until her death she lived at 52 Norland Square, Holland Park.[1]

Examples

  • 'The Lake District for Holidays: Ullswater' (1937), for London, Midland and Scottish Railway.[6]
  • 'Epsom, May 23rd-26th' (1939), Victoria and Albert Museum
  • 'Ireland for Holidays: Killarney' (c. 1939), for London Midland and Scottish Railway.[7]
  • 'Some Place of Interest, Served by London's Underground' (1947), London Transport Museum, Acton[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 'Clodagh Hope Knox Sparrow', arthistoryresearch-net
  2. ↑ Clodagh Sparrow biography, London Transport Museum
  3. ↑ Art for Art's Sake: a Gathering of Irish Art
  4. ↑ 'Art Exhibitions', The Times, 13 October 1949, p. 10
  5. 1 2 'Art Shows', Marylebone Mercury, 28 May, 1954, p. 4
  6. ↑ Robert P. Hymers. 'The Year in Commercial Art', Art Review: A Survey of British Art In All Its Branches (1937), p. 57
  7. ↑ Science Museum
  8. ↑ 'Transport's Poster Guide', Richmond Herald, 17 August 1946, p. 3
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