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Published on: 9/26/2003
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Jann Haworth: Los Angeles, Born, 1942
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sorceress by Jann Haworth
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In 1967 Jann Haworth co-designed (along with her then husband, Peter Blake) perhaps the most famous single image from the Pop Art era; the album cover for the Beatles's, Sgt.
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Jann Haworth first studied art at UCLA and then completed her studies at the Slade School of Art, London.From approximately 1960 to 1985, Haworth lived and worked in England.Along with Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney and others, she was a major figure in the first decade of British Pop Art, a movement which based its designs upon the images of consumerism and popular culture.This original silk-screen clearly belongs to the era of this phenomenal movement.
In 1975 Haworth was one of the seven founding members of the Brotherhood of Ruralists, an artist's group that generally based its work upon the romantic and pastoral traditions of Pre-Raphaelite art and other nineteenth century styles and ideas.The Brotherhood had an immediate impact upon British art and in 1976 a major exhibition of their paintings and sculpture was held in London at the Royal Academy.Haworth and other members of the group also designed the famous cover art for the Arden Shakespeare Series.She created the art for Coriolanus, King Richard III, MacBeth and Twelfth Night.
Jann Haworth left the Brotherhood (c. 1980) and shortly thereafter returned to the United States.She settled in Provo, Utah, and founded the Sundance Artshack Studio, where she presently works and teaches.A fine printmaker, painter and sculptor, Haworth has also written three books on artistic training and teaching for children.Since 1970 her work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in both the United States and England.Her art is today included in many public collections, including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Berardo Modern Art Collection, Lisbon, Portugal.