Original drawings, sketches and artwork of Sheila Hawkins, c.1930s - 1980s

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c.1930s - 1980s

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours

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Sketchbooks, loose sketches, miscellaneous notes, letters, illustrated typescripts, photographs, bookjackets - Medium includes crayon, pen & ink, watercolours and pencil on various types of paper

Sheila Hawkins was born in 1905 at Kalgoorlie on the Western Australian goldfields. She spent her early years in Australia and was educated in Perth then Melbourne, but travelled to England at age 26, and from there she never returned permanently to Australia. Throughout her career she illustrated about 50 children's books, including 10 which she also wrote. She won awards for her work but was not well recognised within Australia

Series 01
Original drawings of Kolo the Koala from the comic strip "Little Kolo and his Mummy" / drawn by Sheila Hawkins

Series 02
Sheila Hawkins' sketchbooks and illustrated typescripts of "Pepito" and "Appleby John", c.1938

Series 03
Original drawings & related materials for children's books, c.1930s - 1966 / drawn by Sheila Hawkins

Series 04
Original drawings of Australian forresters [i.e. foresters] in Scotland and illustrations for NSW Schools Magazine, 1930s - 1978 / drawn by Sheila Hawkins

Series 05
Photographs of commissioned portraits of RAAF airmen painted by Sheila Hawkins, 1941 / photographed by Sheila Hawkins

Sheila Hawkins Papers, 1933 - c.1988 held at MLMSS 5425. Contents list available
Reference source:
Sheila Hawkins: profile of an illustrator / Marcie Muir. Kensington Gardens, S.Aust.: Marcie Muir, 1998
A history of Australian children's book illustration / Marcie Muir. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982