Jann Haworth

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Jann Haworth (*  1942 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American pop art - artist . It is for their collaboration on the famous cover of the Beatles - the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band .

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SLC Pepper - Life-size mural by Jann Haworth in Salt Lake City , Utah

Jann Haworth grew up in Hollywood . Her mother, Miriam Haworth, was a painter , graphic artist and ceramist . Her father Ted Haworth (1917-1993) was a production designer . As art director, he worked on numerous feature films , including The Stranger on the Train , Marty , The Longest Day and Some Like It Hot . For Sayonara he was awarded the Oscar in the category Best Production Design in 1957.

Jann Haworth's parents divorced when she was six years old. In her youth Jann Haworth learned how to sew clothes from her mother and acquired the technical level of a professional seamstress . Jann Haworth began her artistic studies in 1959 at the Art Department of the University of California in Los Angeles. In 1961 Haworth continued her studies in London at the Courtauld Institute of Art . From 1962 to 1963 she studied at the Slade School of Fine Art .

In London, Haworth met leading representatives of the emerging pop art movement, including Richard Hamilton , with whom she had already been in contact at the Slade School of Fine Art. In 1962 she began to make sculptures from sewn fabrics, so-called soft sculptures . From 1963 she took part in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts . Also on solo exhibitions, especially in the art gallery of Robert Fraser in 1966 and 1969, their works were shown.

Jann Haworth married Peter Blake , a well-known member of the London pop art scene , in 1963 . Together with him, she developed the concept for the cover of the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967 . With the support of Robert Frazer as art director, they designed the scenery and made two- and three-dimensional figures, in front of which the Beatles were to pose in fantasy uniforms for the cover. Al Vandenberg assisted them as arranger and Michael Cooper took the photo.

The photo session for the Beatles cover took place on March 30, 1967 in the London Chelsea Manor Studios by Michael Cooper. On the far right of the photo you can see two fabric sculptures by Jann Haworth that were typical for this period: a little girl wearing a sweater with the words Welcome The Rolling Stones and supposed to represent Shirley Temple , and behind it an old woman is hiding. According to Haworth, he also suggested designing the BEATLES lettering in the foreground with flowers. In 1968 Jann Haworth and Peter Blake won a Grammy Award for best album cover. Their daughter Liberty Blake was born in the same year.

At the end of the 1960s, Jann Haworth became one of the most famous figures in the Pop Art movement. In 1975 Jann Haworth and Peter Blake founded the artist association Brotherhood of Ruralists with Graham Arnold and other artists . In 1979 Jann Haworth and Peter Blake separated and in 1984 they divorced.

In 1981 Hayworth created the cover illustrations for several Shakespeare plays for the classic Arden edition . Between 1979 and 1989 Haworth published and illustrated children's books by her second husband Richard Severy . In the 1990s she wrote three art books for children: Paint (1993), Collage (1994) and, with her mother, Miriam Haworth, Painting and Sticking (1995).

In 1996 she received the Robert Fraser Award, which was combined with a scholarship to study in the United States. From 1997 Jann Haworth lived in the US state of Utah in Sundance or in Salt Lake City . In Sundance, she founded Art Shack Studios in 1997 and Recycled Hot Glass Studio in 1999. In 2000 she co-founded the Sundance Mountain Charter School, which later became the Soldier Hollow Charter School.

In the 2000s, Jann Haworth's fame grew significantly. Well-known institutions discovered her pioneering role in the Pop Art movement of the early 1960s and recognized her as a significant artist in a male-dominated art world. She is represented in the most famous retrospectives of Pop Art, especially in those that highlight the historical importance of English Pop Art and the role of women artists.

In 2004, Jann Haworth began work in Salt Lake City on SLC PEPPER , a 15-meter-wide and 9-meter-high mural intended to represent a contemporary, bourgeois version of the Sgt.-Pepper cover. Together with more than 30 local, national and international artists, Haworth created a new set of “Heroes of the 21st Century” in stenciled graffiti , each of which replaces one of the characters originally portrayed. Only outlines of the Beatles can be seen. SLC PEPPER is being developed as an ongoing art project. In 2007 she designed the costumes for two productions of the rock opera Tommy from The Who .

In 2009 Haworth created the Mannequin Defectors , a series of corset-wearing mannequins that used feminist protest posters to express their rebellion. In 2016, Jann Haworth and her daughter Liberty Blake began work on a mural entitled Work in Progress . Seven boards with a total length of 8.5 meters and a height of 2.4 meters are intended to document the successes of women in various fields. Depicted are the heads of more than 100 influential women who were either written from history or marginalized. As the title Work in Progress suggests, the panels are constantly being supplemented with additional faces.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1966: Robert Fraser Gallery, London
  • 1966: Gallery 20, Amsterdam
  • 1968: Studio Marconi, Milan
  • 1969: Robert Fraser Gallery, London
  • 1971: Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
  • 1972: Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
  • 1974: Waddington Galleries, London
  • 1993: Gimpel Fils Gallery, London
  • 1995: Gimpel Fils Gallery, London
  • 2000: Screening Room, Sundance
  • 2006: James Mayor, London
  • 2008: Galerie du Center, Paris
  • 2009: Wolverhampton Arts + Museums, Wolverhampton
  • 2016: Galerie du Center, Paris
  • 2019: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

Group exhibitions

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personal data
SURNAME Haworth, Jann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pop art artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California