Gil Reed

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Bulletin cartoonist in the 1910s, Gil Reed's 'At the Art Gallery' featured in the 1999 State Library of NSW exhibition, Australians in black & white : the most public art.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
Gil Reed
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Active Period
  • c.1912
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

cartoonist, drew a cartoon At the Art Gallery for the Bulletin in 1912, showing an ugly woman looking at the Venus de Milo, for which he was paid 15/-. The drawing was annotated to be reproduced 'small’. Used in Australians in black & white : the most public art , SLNSW 1999 b/w exhibition in comparison with Lionel Lindsay 's In the Bot. Garden about classical and real ideas of male beauty.

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Lionel Lindsay
1874
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
At the Art Gallery
Date
1912
Australians in black & white : (the most public art)
1999
Exhibition ()
State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Citations:
  • Judd, Craig, (1999), Australians in black & white : the most public art, (Place: Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales)