Adrian Feint b. 1894

Also known as Adrian George Feint
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), (Printmaker)
  • Designer (Graphic Designer)
The multi-talented Feint was a painter, printmaker, bookplate designer and illustrator who provided illustrations for a range of books and journals and was renowned for his bookplates.
Name
Adrian Feint
Also known as Adrian George Feint
Birth date
1894
Death date
1971
Death place
Sydney, NSW
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
  • Artist (Printmaker)
  • Designer (Graphic Designer)
Residence
  • Narrandera, NSW
Other Occupation
  • Gallery director
  • Commercial artist
Active Period
  • c.1925- c.1950
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

painter, printmaker, bookplate designer, illustrator, commercial artist and gallery director, was born at Narrandera (NSW) on 26 June 1894.

Prints include woodcut Circe 1927 (edn 50) (Lebovic & Warner, Fifty Years , cat.16), The Offering-Bali n.d. (c.1932), edn 20/50 (Mitchell Library, SSV 99/INDO 1), and Ned Kelly. Pen drawings include a group of women in late Victorian costume under trees, exhibited Society of Artists 1922 (ill. in cat. plate 47).

Oil paintings include The Little Farm, Bengarby 1947 offered by Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Carlton, Early Australian Painters , catalogue of exhibition 25 May-15 June 2001 (cat 39 ill. from col. Dr Grant Lindeman) originally exhibited in Australian Red Cross Society exhibition, David Jones Gallery 1949, no.80 and on p.78 of Adrian Feint Flower Paintings , Ure Smith, 1948.

Illustrations in various styles were done for Home . Did story illustrations in Australia: National Journal and Australia Week end Book no.1 (1942), e.g. angel of resurrection in Prague for M.W. Peacock’s 'Requium’, p.86, historical illustrations 1788-1940 for Marjorie Barnard’s 'Parade of Women’, pp.113-122, and outback scenes for M.W. Peacock’s 'Wings’. Art Gallery of New South Wales has pen and ink drawing, 'The Old Bachelor [18th century man in bed with sleeping woman]’ 1924, purchased from Exhibition of Younger Group of Artists, Anthony Horderns 1924 (10 gns).

Feint was renowned for his bookplates.

Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
child of
née Ford Catherine Charlotte Feint
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Samuel Feint
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Myra Cocks
1893
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Alice Danciger
1914
Artist (Painter), Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer), Designer (Theatre / Film Designer)
associate of
Harry Julius
1885
Artist (Industrial / Product Designer), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Marjory Francesca McCrae
1905
Artist (Industrial / Product Designer), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Adrienne Parkes
1910
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Olive Muriel Pink
1884
Artist (Painter)
associate of
G. Gayfield Shaw
1885
Artist (Printmaker)
associate of
Joshua Smith
1905
Artist
associate of
New South Wales Society of Artists
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Australian Red Cross Society
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Younger Group of Artists
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Australian Red Cross Society exhibition
1949
Exhibition (exhibited at)
David Jones Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Exhibition of Younger Group of Artists
1924
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Anthony Horderns, Sydney, NSW
1922
Exhibition (exhibited at)
New South Wales Society of Artists, Sydney, NSW
Citations:
  • New South Wales Death Records : 2823/1971
  • New South Wales Marriage Records : 5166/1893
  • New South Wales Birth Records : 23400/1894
  • (1948), Adrian Feint Flower Paintings, (Place: Ure Smith)
  • (2001), Early Australian Painters, (Place: Catalogue of exhibition 25 May-15 June, Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Carlton, Vic.)
  • Lebovic & Warner, Fifty Years, (Place: cat.16)
  • Judd, Craig, MA prelim, (Place: University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.)
  • (1998), 'Watercolours and Drawings', (Place: Josef Lebovic Gallery Collectors' List no.71, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, NSW)
  • Mullins, John Lane (ed.), (1928), Bookplates by Adrian Feint, (Place: Palmtree Press, Sydney, NSW)
  • McCulloch, A., (1984), Encyclopedia of Australian Art, (Place: Melbourne, Vic. (2nd edn))