[5] In 1943 she won the Sir John Sulman Prize for a mural commissioned by restaurateur Walter Magnus for Le Coq D'Or Restaurant, Ash Street, Sydney.
[9] The same year Haxton designed costumes and scenery for the Borovansky Ballet's touring production of Los Tres Diabolos based on Offenbach's opera.
[11] Her exhibition at the Macquarie Galleries was well received and James Cook, art critic for The Daily Telegraph found she had lost "none of her earlier adventurous spirit".
Haxton was able to combine travel with work and in 1972 spent time in Bali, Sumatra and Java researching and creating a series of illustrations for Maslyn Williams"s book The Story of Indonesia.
Senior art critic for the Canberra Times, Sasha Grishin, commented her large painting created "an almost surreal setting where the combatants with their toy-like equipment, ... dwarfed by the grandeur of nature".