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following an early interest in sculpture, and then some time in the art department of David Jones before she travelled to London in 1933. She attended the
Grosvenor School of Art but to achieve this worked as a commercial artist at J. Walter Thompson. She also found time to travel around Europe,
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usually by train with a rucksack. She visited France, Germany and Spain and was accompanied by
Australian sculptor Eileen McGrath. At the end of the 1930s she visited New York and returned to Australia via Mexico at the outbreak of war. Her friends and contemporaries in Sydney were
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In 1954, PIX magazine described her as "having a feeling for colour and design" and had "gay paintings hanging in New York and most
National Galleries in Australia". The same year Haxton designed costumes and scenery for the
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work and have thoroughly enjoyed doing it". Her exhibition at the
Macquarie Galleries was well received and James Cook, art critic for The Daily Telegraph found she had lost "none of her earlier adventurous spirit".
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in 1967 at Rue Moulin Vert. Haxton was able to combine travel with work and in 1972 spent time in Bali, Sumatra and Java researching and creating a series of illustrations for Maslyn
Williams"s book
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exhibition of ACIAA in 1940, and she continued to take part in commercial art events throughout the rest of her career.21 In the 1960s, the
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for a mural commissioned by restaurateur Walter Magnus for Le Coq D'Or
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