Kathleen Hale OBECedric Morris said to me one day,
'Do you mean to tell me, Kathleen,
that you have hung your slender reputation
on the broad shoulders of a eunuch cat?'
'Myself, aged 17, with my hair first put up, and rimless Pince Nez
with fine golden chain hooked behind ear!!', 1917
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Kathleen during a visit to Bruges with Douglas, 1928
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Making metal 'groups' and pictures of aquariums, 1920s
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Kathleen on Television 'Making my metal pictures and 'groups'
for Gaumont British Programme - News Item
(Copyright Kael's of London), 1920s
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Kathleen and Bill 'The only time I had my hair permed -
perhaps inspired by Bill' (Copyright 'Picture Post'), 1940s
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Kathleen and Orlando, 1940s
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At New Grafton Gallery, London, in March, 1976
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Kathleen Hale in her gold coat worn when she received
the OBE (Copyright Frederick Warne & Co), 1980s
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| Biography | | 1898 | Born 24 May at Broughton, Lanarkshire, the youngest of three children of Charles and Ethel Hale of Manchester; following the death of her father in 1903, she is brought up largely by her grandparents and an aunt | | 1907-15 | Attends Manchester High School for Girls, latterly joining classes at Manchester Art School | | 1915 | Takes up a scholarship in art at Reading University College | | 1917 | Moves to London and works at the Ministry of Food, before joining the Land Army | | 1919 | Appointed secretary to Augustus John | | 1920 | Makes her first visit abroad, with Frank Potter to Etaples in Normandy; on her return she exhibits drawings made there at the Grosvenor Gallery and the New English Art Club | | 1920-26 | Undertakes various temporary employment, including an 'extra' in films, debt-collecting, teaching drawing in an infants' school, as well as designing dust-jackets for WH Smith and illustrating children's books | | 1923 | Visits Paris for the first time, where she meets Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines | | 1926 | Marries Douglas McClean and settles in John Street, Bloomsbury | | 1928 | Illustrates Mary Harrower's I don't mix with Fairies (Eyre & Spottiswoode) | | 1930 | Peregrine McClean Born | | 1931 | Moves to Rabley Willow, near Elstree, Hertfordshire | | 1933 | Nicholas McClean born | | 1938 | Orlando, the Marmalade Cat. A Camping Holiday, (Country Life) | | 1939 | Orlando, the Marmalade Cat. A Trip Abroad, (Country Life) | | 1941 | Orlando's Evening Out, (Penguin) | | 1942 | Orlando, the Marmalade Cat, Buys a Farm, (Country Life) | | Orlando's Home Life, (Penguin) | | 1943 | Henrietta, the Faithful Hen, (Transatlantic Arts) | | 1944 | Orlando, the Marmalade Cat. His Silver Wedding, (Country Life) | | Orlando, the Marmalade Cat, Becomes a Doctor, (Country Life) | | 1947 | Orlando's Invisible Pyjamas, (Transatlantic Arts) | | 1949 | Orlando, the Marmalade Cat, Keeps a Dog, (Country Life) | | 1950 | Orlando the Judge, (John Murray) | | 1951 | Designs costumes and scenery, and writes lyrics, for the Festival of Britain ballet Orlando's Silver Wedding, produced by Vera Lindsay, choreographed by Andree Howard and with music by Arthur Benjamin; four performances only are given at the Open Air Theatre in Battersea Park Pleasure Gardens | | 1952 | Orlando, the Marmalade Cat. A Seaside Holiday, (Country Life) | | Manda, (John Murray) | | 1954 | Orlando's Zoo, (John Murray) | | 1956 | Orlando, the Marmalade Cat. The Frisky Housewife, (Country Life) | | 1958 | Orlando's Magic Carpet, (John Murray) | | 1959 | Orlando's Country Peepshow, (Chatto & Windus) | | 1960 | Puss in Boots. A Peepshow Book, (Chatto & Windus) | | 1961 | Moves to Tod House, Forest Hill, Oxfordshire | | 1963 | Orlando, the Marmalade Cat, Buys a Cottage, (Country Life) | | 1965 | Orlando and the Three Graces, (John Murray) | | 1967 | Douglas McClean dies | | 1968 | Orlando Goes to the Moon, (John Murray) | | 1972 | Orlando and the Water Cats, (John Murray) | | 1973 | Henrietta's Magic Egg, (Allen & Unwin) | | 1976 | Awarded the OBE | | Catharine Carrington and Kathleen Hale, New Grafton Gallery, London | | 1994 | A Slender Reputation: An Autobiography, (Frederick Warne) | | 1995 | Kathleen Hale: Artist, Illustrator, The Gekoski Gallery, London | | 2000 | Dies, 26 January, at Bristol | | 2001 | Kathleen Hale 1898-2000 - Memorial Exhibition, Michael Parkin Fine Art and The Redfern Gallery |
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