Pixie O'Harris

Pixie O'Harris

MBE
BornRhona Olive Harris
(1903-10-15)15 October 1903
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Died17 November 1991(1991-11-17) (aged 88)
Sydney, Australia
Pen namePixie O'Harris
OccupationAuthor, artist, illustrator, broadcaster
NationalityAustralian
SpouseBruce Pratt (m. 1928)

Pixie O'Harris MBE (born Rhona Olive Harris; 15 October 1903 – 17 November 1991) was a Welsh-born Australian artist, newspaper, magazine and book illustrator, author, broadcaster, caricaturist and cartoonist, designer of book plates, sheet music covers and stationery, and children's hospital ward fairy-style mural painter. She became patron to Sydney's Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in 1977.[1]

  1. ^ Heywood, Anne (2002). "O'Harris, Pixie (1903–1991)". The Australian Women's Register. National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW), University of Melbourne. Retrieved 21 April 2019.