RA Collection: People and Organisations
Derrick Harris (1919-1960) was a British engraver and illustrator. He worked for the BBC Radio Times and designed full page covers for The Listener Magazine. He also designed wood engravings for the Festival of Britain and an unpublished children’s book “A Royal Flush”. In 1957 he became chairman of the Illustrators Group of the Society of Industrial Artists. He spent the majority of his working life living in Hampstead, London, with his wife Mavis who he met at University College Hospital. The couple moved to New York in 1958 and organised the British Book Illustration exhibition.
Born: 1919 in London
Died: 1960
Gender: Male
Boxwood & graver ; a miscellany of blocks - [Westerham ; Kent]: 1958
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Mabel Jenkins
Teatime stories - London: 1946
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Whitbread & Co. Ltd.
Word for word : an encyclopaedia of beer in which are defined some of the many expressions - serious, comic, colloquial - that have been used by the farmer and the brewer, on both sides of the bar and in the home during the long and interesting history of this country's traditional drink / illustrations by Derrick Harris ; with an introduction by Ivor Brown - London: 1953
15/1996