Coral White

  • Artist (Sculptor) , (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Early 20th century Sydney sculptor, cartoonist and illustrator.
Name
Coral White
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Sculptor)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Residence
  • Sydney, NSW
Active Period
  • c.1927- c.1928
Languages
  • English
Training
  • c.1927 East Sydney Technical College, Darlinghurst, NSW
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

cartoonist and illustrator, studied under Rayner Hoff at East Sydney Technical College. An article entitled 'The Revival of Sculpture’ in Art in Australia (March 1927) commented that her work, along with that by Vic Cowdroy , Mavis Mallison, Joan Morrison and Mollie Rohr, 'had a fresh and original outlook which invested it with considerable interest’ – even though Eileen McGrath was the star. White drew two comic illustrations for Angela Thirkell’s article, 'A Healthy Mind in a Clean Body: illustrating how we may be forgiven for deriving a little indelicate amusement from physical culture propaganda’, Home 1 September 1928, 41, i.e. 'Monumental as Mrs. Mulder was in her early stages, she was, if possible, even more revolting when reduced in bulk’ and 'She taught him the eye exercises till be became a He-Man again’. She also drew a column-length title illustration for Thirkell’s 'The Prince of Adventurers’, about a film seen 'when I was in London last autumn’ that arrived from Paris with the hero’s name changed from Casanova to Roberto Ferrara, 1 November 1928, 27.

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Rayner Hoff
1894
Artist (Sculptor)
associate of
Victoria Ethel Cowdroy
1908
Artist (Screen Artist), Artist (Industrial / Product Designer), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Painter)
associate of
D. E. Mavis Mallison
Artist (Sculptor)
associate of
Joan Morrison
1911
Artist (Painter), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Eileen McGrath
1907
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Sculptor)
associate of
Mollie Rohr
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Mollie Horseman
1911
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Citations:
  • (March 1927), 'The Revival of Sculpture', (Place: Sydney, NSW : Art in Australia)