John Farleigh was best-known for his wood carvings and illustrations for the book The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God, written by the author George Bernard Shaw. He was also a painter, lithographer, writer and art teacher. Among others he designed the posters for the London Transport Company and the trams. Farleigh lived and studied in London before and after World War I. He submitted three designs for fabric designs for the applied arts contest, produced for Marshall Fabrics Ltd. in Manchester. The design Wimbledon is known to have been implemented as can be seen on an advertisement from 1949.
Great Britain