Harry Wingfield
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John Henry (Harry) Wingfield (4 December 1910 - 5 March 2002) was an English illustrator, best known for his drawings that illustrated the Ladybird Books Key Words Reading Scheme (also known as Peter and Jane) in the 1960s through to the 1980s, which sold over 80 million copies worldwide.
Wingfield was born in Denby, near Derby, where his father worked at a glass factory. He grew up in Manchester and Derbyshire. He started his first job, in an advertising agency in Derby, aged 14, and then worked in Walsall and Birmingham. He took evening classes in drawing, where he met his wife, Ethel. He served in the RAF in the Second World War, and began working for Ladybird in the 1950s.
His clean line drawings provided strong images to accompany the simple text devised by William Murray. The images conformed to stereotypes, with neat, obedient children; Peter helping Daddy with the car or in the garden, and Jane helping Mummy in the kitchen. Within a few years, Wingfield's images were look out of date, and he modernised them in the 1970s. The children became scruffier, and the domestic setings changed.
Exhibitions of Wingfield's pictures were held in Walsall in 2002 and 2003.
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