Educated at Warwick School, Hayward-Young's work, particularly his postcard designs (of which there are over 800), became renowned worldwide. He wrote a series of articles on Sketching for 'The Girls Own Paper and Woman's Magazine' which were later published as a book under the title 'Short Cuts to Sketching'.
Hayward-Young signed many of his pieces under the pseudonym 'Jotter'. In 1912, Hayward-Young designed posters for the London Underground, including one promoting visits to Hampton Court. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hayward-Young
And that’s it, not much of an entry for an artist who created well over the 800 original works of art referred to above, as well as various posters, book illustrations and other paintings.
Happily for Hayward Young – there’s no hyphen and Hayward was a second name – his maturing as an artist coincided with the development of picture postcards and he appears to have been very much in demand. Young produced paintings for quite a number of postcard publishers with the firm of Raphael Tuck & Sons (London) being the principal one. He also produced work for the firms of Arthur Burkart & Co. and Frederick Hartmann both also of London. Ironically, in the light of what was to follow, all three firms were developed by German émigrés.
On the 29th December 1940, a bombing raid on London by the German Luftwaffe, destroyed Tuck’s Raphael House head offices and the records of seventy-four years and 40,000 or more original pictures were reduced to ashes. I assume that this is the reason that so few original “Jotter” paintings turn up at auction. I haven’t established what happened to the collections held at the other London based postcard publishers – anybody able to throw some light on the matter? .
There’s a very fine database of Tuck’s output here: http://tuckdb.org/ and all of Young’s Irish postcards produced for the firm can be found there. I have been on the trail of his Irish work for other companies – that for Burkart & Co. is concentrated on the great Victorian hotels that sprang up to cater for the tourist trade brought to the south and west of the country by the railways. The card shown here is one of the scarcer of his Irish cards, and shows the Great Southern Hotel at Waterville, County Kerry.
While I still collect mass produced Irish cards by "Jotter", I have now largely moved on to collecting original, one-off hand-painted postcards and will return to this in my next post.
