RA Collection: People and Organisations
A British artist, illustrator and writer of children’s books. Critic Brian Alderson (children’s book critic) called him “perhaps the most original children’s book illustrator of the period”. Jones was born in London and studied illustration there from 1920 at Goldsmith’s College, under Edmund Sullivan, a former teacher of Arthur Rackham; at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in 1922–1923; and then on scholarship at the Royal College of Art.
Born: 22 February 1904
Died: 10 June 1992
Kathleen Lines and Harold Jones
Noah and the ark / by Harold Jones and Kathleen Lines - London: 1961
13/1725
Harold Jones
The visit to the farm / written and illustrated by Harold Jones - London: [1941]
09/1500
Lewis Carroll
The hunting of the snark : an agony, in eight fits / by Lewis Carroll ; illustrated by Harold Jones - Gloucestershire: 1975
12/5272
Robert Browning
The pied piper of Hamlin / illustrated by Harold Jones - London: 1962
11/2566