Margaret Curtis Haythorne

Sister of the artist Edmund Haythorne (b.1898), Margaret Haythorne was born in Liverpool. After studying at Liverpool City School of Art, she entered the Central School, winning Queen's and William Atkinson Scholarships. An early wood engraving pupil of Noel Rooke, she contributed a frontispiece to Pericles (1914), one of the Central publications printed under the direction of J. H. Mason in the Book Production Department. Her work was admired by Malcolm Salaman who reproduced examples in two important Studio publications on wood engraving, notably The New Woodcut (1930).

With Muriel Jackson she painted decorations on the staircase of the Central School, and the Annunication altarpiece of St Peter's, Limehouse, 1921.

She exhibited in Liverpool, and in London, at the RA, the NEAC, and at the Redfern Gallery with the Society of Wood Engravers, of which she became an associate member in 1924.
Author: JS