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Jann Haworth’s art is poignant and telling, sly and humorous. A pioneer of “soft sculptures” in the early 1960s, Haworth is perhaps best-known as the co-creator of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, which Rolling Stonemagazine named the most important album cover of all time.
Artist Jann Haworth, known for creating The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band” album cover and the “SLC Pepper” mural, and Alex Johnstone powerfully assemble a colorful cast of more than 250 figures from across the Beehive State in Utah Women 2020.
Jann Haworth was born in Hollywood, USA. From 1959-61 she attended the University of California, Los Angeles before coming to England in 1961 to attend the Courtauld Institute and then the Slade School of Fine Art from 1962-3. In 1963, whilst a student at the Slade Haworth met Peter Blake at a party and they married in July of that year.
Jann Haworth is one of the few female artists involved in the original Pop Art movement of the 1960’s. Her contribution was immense, acknowledged by her solo shows at the London gallery of infamous Pop dealer Robert Fraser in 1966 and 1969. She also enjoyed many group and solo shows across Europe and the US throughout the period, and was further honoured with a Grammy in 1968 for her co ...
9 de mar. de 2023 · Work in Progress (2021-2) is a major commission co-created by pop artist and soft sculpture pioneer Jann Haworth (b.1942) and collage artist Liberty Blake (b.1968) as part of the National Portrait Gallery’s Reframing Narratives: Women in Portraiture project, with kind support from the CHANEL Culture Fund.The 8 x 28 feet, seven-panel mural, produced in collaboration with individuals and ...
Jann Haworth (Los Angeles, 1942) é uma artista estadunidense especializada em pop art. É conhecida por ter sido autora, juntamente com seu então marido Peter Blake, da arte de capa do álbum Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, da banda The Beatles.Por este trabalho, conquistou o prêmio Grammy de "Melhor Capa de Álbum", em 1968. . Haworth realizou estudos em instituições como a ...
30 de mar. de 2023 · In the wake of the pandemic, Jann Haworth would begin preparations for her latest exhibition “more simply than usual”. The resewn patterns of our collective lives can be seen to parallel Haworth’s efforts “to make pieces that were softer” as the artist “pulled away from some of the expectations and constraints of fine art traditions: the evenly stretched canvas; the single sheet of ...
