Althea Willoughby

Althea Willoughby (1904–1982 ) was a British artist. She worked as a book and magazine illustrator, painted decorative tiles and made wood engravings. Her work was exhibited at the Redfern Gallery in 1930 and at The British Art in India exhibition of 1935. and illustrated three volumes of Faber and Faber's Ariel Poems: James Stephens' The Outcast, D. H. Lawrence's The Triumph of the Machine (1930), and Henry Newbolt's A Child is Born (1931) She designed posters for London Transport, and for the Southern Railway. She also designed patterned papers for the Curwen Press.

After marriage, Willoughby was known as Althea Wolton.

Her work is in collections including the Olga Hirsch Collection of Decorated Papers at the British Library, and that of the Victoria and Albert Museum.