Peter Haworth
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| Born | 1889 Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 7 May 1986 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | British, Canadian |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Known for | Stained glass |
Peter Haworth DFC (1889 – 7 May 1986) was a British-born Canadian painter. He was known for his stained glass work.
Peter Haworth was born in 1889 in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, England. During World War I (1914–1918) he served in the Royal Flying Corps and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. After the war he studied at the Royal College of Art in London under William Rothenstein and Robert Anning Bell. He specialized in stained glass at an early stage in his career. Hawarth married Zema Barbara Cogill (1900–1988), a painter from South Africa who also studied at the Royal College of Art under Rothenstein. She used the name Bobs Cogill Haworth.
In 1923 the Haworths immigrated to Canada, where Peter was appointed Director of Art at the Central Technical School in Toronto. Bobs Haworth taught ceramics at the Central Technical School from 1929 to 1963. Peter Haworth accepted Doris McCarthy for a teaching job at the school late in 1931 on the basis of a portfolio of her work. She says of him in her autobiography, "Peter Haworth was a young, good-looking, curly-headed autocrat, who was gradually transforming a mediocre secondary-school art department into a dynamic powerhouse. Instead of hiring teachers who had taken summer courses in art, he hired artists and hoped they could teach." He gave the artists very little guidance, expecting them to work out how to do the job.
While teaching Peter Haworth also accepted commissions to undertake stained glass work. These included fourteen panels for the First Baptist Church, Ottawa, which drew favorable attention to his work in 1929. In 1931 he exhibited a painting Outhouses with the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour. The National Gallery of Canada bought this painting in 1932. He was elected president of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour by 1936. Haworth was also a member of the Ontario Society of Artists. Both Peter and Bobs Haworth made illustrations for Kingdom of the Saguenay (1936) by Marius Barbeau. In 1938 three of his watercolors were exhibited at the Tate in London in the show A Century of Canadian Art. The Haworths also collaborated on illustrating James Edward Le Rossignol's The Habitant Merchant (1939).
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