Margaret Macadam

Margaret Macadam (1902–1991) was a British illustrator who was active in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1923-24, she was a member of the Society of Women Artists, and in 1925, she was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools ^[1] where a fellow student was Amy Elton, who would later become her sister-in-law.^{[2] [3]} Among her commercial works are several dust jacket designs for London-based publishers, with one of her most notable designs being the dust jacket for the first edition of Agatha Christie's first straight novel Giant's Bread . In 2016, an archive of Macadam's work was discovered,^[4] allowing her work on "Giant's Bread" to be connected to other known designs. The original artwork for Giant's Bread was sold for 550ドル in 2016.^[5] She is also known to have designed wallpaper, and greetings cards for Medici, London. Other examples of her work include a painting titled 1933.^[6] In May 1936 she married Francis Beart, who was already well-known as a racing motor cyclist and motor cycle tuner. Beart later gained recognition for tuning Formula Three racing cars.^[7] During World War II she trained as a nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) while her husband worked as an engineer for the Bristol Aeroplane Company.^[8] Her father, Charles Leslie Bernard Macadam, and her grandfather, Charles Thomas Macadam, both worked in the fertiliser industry, while her great-grandfather was William Macadam of Glasgow.

Among her known works are:

• Giant's Bread by Mary Westmacott, a nom-de-plume of Agatha Christie (1930) William Collins, Sons - 'Collins', London - first edition.
• Water into Wine by Catherine Cotton (1930) Collins, London - dust jacket for overseas edition.^[9]
• This Siren Song by Ernest Elmore (1930) Collins, London - dust jacket for first edition.
• Living One's Life by Evelyn Pember (1932) Collins, London - dust jacket for first edition.^[10]
• Joseph Kerkhoven's Third Existence by Jacob Wassermann (1934) Allen & Unwin, London - dust jacket for first UK edition.^{[11] [12]}
• Blind Mouths by Thomas Frederic Tweed (1934) Arthur Barker, London - dust jacket for first edition.^[13]
• Neighbours by George Thomas (1935) Williams & Norgate, Ltd., London - dust jacket for first edition.^[14]
• The Barbarians by Virginia Faulkner (1935) Arthur Barker, London - dust jacket for first edition.^[15]
• Humour by Stephen Leacock (1935) The Bodley Head, London - dust jacket for first edition.^[16]

Not all her dust jackets are signed, but those for Water into Wine, Joseph Kerkhoven's Third Existence, Blind Mouths, Neighbours, The Barbarians and Humour are.

• 20th-century British artists
• 20th-century British women artists
• British illustrators
• 1902 births
• 1991 deaths

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