Pixie O'Harris MBE | |
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Born | Rhona Olive Harris 15 October 1903 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom |
Died | 17 November 1991 Sydney, Australia | (aged 88)
Pen name | Pixie O'Harris |
Occupation | Author, artist, illustrator, broadcaster |
Nationality | Australian |
Spouse | Bruce 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]