Peter Haworth was born in 1889 in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, England.
14 Facts About Peter Haworth
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Peter Haworth specialized in stained glass at an early stage in his career.
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In 1923 the Haworths immigrated to Canada, where Peter was appointed Director of Art at the Central Technical School in Toronto.
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Bobs Peter Haworth taught ceramics at the Central Technical School from 1929 to 1963.
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Peter Haworth accepted Doris McCarthy for a teaching job at the school late in 1931 on the basis of a portfolio of her work.
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Peter Haworth was elected president of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour by 1936.
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Peter Haworth was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists.
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Peter Haworth kept his teaching job at the Central Technical School during and after World War II.
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Peter Haworth was employed by the University of Toronto as an instructor in Design and Drawing in 1939.
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Peter Haworth was still primarily a stained glass artist in the 1950s.
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Peter Haworth held a one-man show in 1959 at the Roberts Gallery in Toronto.
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Peter Haworth noted the important role of the Canadian Guild of Potters, and of ceramic educators such as the Haworths at the Central Technical School.
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Peter Haworth's is more the reflective, minor-key style of nature-painting.
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Peter Haworth loves an arresting pattern of lines, such as a dock with interesting stages to it and stairs leading to the various landings, a herring weir, the formation of roots, a grouping of flora, a kaleidoscopic pattern of variously tinted autumn leaves floating on water.