Helen Binyon

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Helen Binyon
Born(1904-12-09)9 December 1904
Chelsea, London, England
Died22 November 1979(1979-11-22) (aged 74)[1]
Chichester, England
Known forWatercolour painting, illustration, puppetry

Helen Francesca Mary Binyon (9 December 1904 – 22 November 1979) was a British artist and writer.[2] She was also a watercolour painter, an illustrator and a puppeteer.

Biography

Binyon was born in

Redfern Gallery in London.[4] Throughout her life, Binyon remained close to her RCA peer group.[7]

Between 1931 and 1938, Binyon taught part-time at the Eastbourne College of Art and also at the North London Collegiate School.[3] With her twin sister, Margaret, Binyon established a travelling puppet theatre, Jiminy Puppets.[4][6] During 1938, the sisters performed a one-act play, Old Spain, twice-nightly at a theatre in Notting Hill in London.[7] The play was accompanied with music by Lennox Berkeley, a verse libretto by Montagu Slater and had Benjamin Britten playing the piano score.[7] Also during 1938, Binyon worked for Robert Gibbings producing illustrations for the Penguin Illustrated Classics series, including an edition of Pride and Prejudice.[8]

During World War II, Binyon worked for the

Grafton Gallery in 1979.[4] Binyon's interest in puppetry continued throughout her life and she wrote two books on the subject, including a 1971 survey of professional puppetry commissioned by the Arts Council.[4] She also wrote the first published volume on Ravilious and illustrated several other books, including her fathers' play Brief Candles and a series of books written by her sister Margaret Binyon.[6][10] Her children's book illustrations were often in pen and ink but she also produced wood engravings for her other book work.[3] She was a member of the Society of Wood Engravers.[8]

Published works

  • Angeline or L'Amie Inconnne (1933, Swan Press) by M.Edgeworth, illustrated by Helen Binyon[3]
  • Sophro the Wise. A play for children by Laurence Binyon with Margaret and Helen Binyon (1927, Ernest Benn)[10]
  • Brief Candles, a play by Laurence Binyon, with engravings by Helen Binyon
  • The Birthday party (1940, Oxford University Press, OUP) with Margaret Binyon
  • Polly and Jane (1940, OUP) with Margaret Binyon
  • A Country Visit (1940, OUP) with Margaret Binyon
  • A Day at the Sea (1940, OUP) with Margaret Binyon
  • Christmas Eve, A tale of Children (1942, OUP)
  • The Picnic (1944, OUP)
  • Polly Goes to School (1944, OUP)
  • Polly and Jane's House (1949, OUP)
  • The Railway Journey (1949, OUP)
  • The Children Next Door (1949, Aladdin Books)
  • An Everyday Alphabet (1952, OUP)
  • Puppetry Today (1966)[9]
  • Professional Puppetry in England (1973)[7]
  • Eric Raviliouis - Memoir of an Artist (1983, Lutterworth Press)[11]

References

  1. ISBN 9780718844899
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  2. ISBN 2-7000-3072-9
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  3. ^
    ISBN 1-85149-1082
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    ISBN 0953260909
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  5. ^ "Ravilious and his friends revealed with major exhibition at Towner Art Gallery". Museum Crush. 26 April 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  6. ^ a b c "Helen Binyon (Biographical details)". The British Museum. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  7. ^
    ISBN 9780500021828
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  8. ^
    ISBN 0-85967-968-3
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  9. ^
    ISBN 1-85149-106-6
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  10. ^ a b "Explore the British Library, Helen Binyon". The British Library. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  11. ^ "Eric Ravilious - Memoir of an Artist". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
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