Clodagh Hope Knox Sparrow

Clodagh Hope Knox Sparrow (24 July 1905 – 28 July 1957) was a British artist best known for her railway travel and holiday posters. She was frequently commissioned by the railway companies from the 1930s and into the 1950s, including work for British Railways, the Great Western Railway, London Midland and Scottish, London Transport, Southern Railway and others.

Sparrow was born in Burma to a British engineer, Joseph James Knox Sparrow and his wife Ida Eliza Barbour Johnston. By 1911 the family had moved to the UK and were living in West Division, Carrickfergus, Antrim, Northern Ireland.

London exhibitions of her work were held at the Royal Academy of Art in 1938 and 1948, and at Leighton House in 1954. Examples can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Railway Museum, and frequently come up for auction.

She was a member of the Arts Society of Paddington. 'Epsom, May 23rd-26th' (1939), Victoria and Albert Museum 'Ireland for Holidays: Killarney' (c. 1939), for London Midland and Scottish Railway. 'Some Place of Interest, Served by London's Underground' (1947), London Transport Museum, Acton