A painter, draftsman, muralist, sculptor, art critic and an important art educator and leader in the Chicago art community, Professor Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William [now Thunder Bay], Ontario, Canada and died in Chicago, Illinois, which had been his primary home since 1917.Haydon’s works were included in numerous exhibitions held at the Art Institute of Chicago, such as the “Annual Students Exhibition of the Art Institute School” (1933); the “Annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity” (1937, 1938, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1950 and 1958); the “Annual Exhibition of American Painting” (1947); the “Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary American Art” (1947 and 1950); and the “Biennial of Prints, Drawings and Water Colors by Illinois Artists” (1964). His works were also featured in the exhibition “Options” shown at the Milwaukee Art Center and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1968).In 1982, a 50 year retrospective of Haydon’s works was shown at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Architecture, Art and Urban Planning Gallery.Many of his murals, mosaics, wool ark curtains and stained glass creations are in churches, synagogues and schools in the Chicago area. One of his biggest and most important public space creations, a 16′ x 44′ mural painted in 1934, is still in its original location in the Pickering College gymnasium, Newmarket, Ontario.