Monica Walker (illustrator)
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Monica Walker was a writer and illustrator, active in the United Kingdom in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a student at the
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in the late 1930s. She is depicted as a shopkeeper in an illustration, ''High Street'', by her fellow student Hilary Stebbing. Walker worked for a time as a draughtswoman in an aircraft factory. She illustrated children's books, including her own ''The Educated Pig'' (
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; 1949) and texts by others such as ''Ditties for the Nursery'' (Oxford University Press, 1954) by Iona Opie, ''Trouble for Tembo'' (Dolphin Books/ University of London Press, 1958) by Lesley Bourne, and ''Martin's Holiday'' (Dolphin Books/ University of London Press, 1960) by Enid Wiseman. Her work was featured on the cover of the 1956 Christmas edition of ''
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''. A 1947 portrait photograph of Walker, by
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, is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. She was photographed by Gay for, and featured in, an article in ''
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'', "Eight Young Artists in Search of an Editor", in which she was said to be living with her parents in
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. The
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(the successor to the Central School of Arts and Crafts) has three of her works in its collection.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Walker, Monica 20th-century British artists 20th-century British women artists British illustrators British children's book illustrators British women children's book illustrators Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design Year of birth missing Year of death missing People from Surbiton Draughtswomen