J. N. Kilgour b. 1900

Also known as:
  • Jack Kilgour
  • J. Kilgour
  • J. Noel Kilgour
  • Noel Kilgour
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator) , (Painter)
Mid 20th century Sydney painter and illustrator. Kilgour's black and white work is best seen in the illustrations he contributed to stories in the 'Australia Week-end Books'. Kilgour was married to fellow painter Nancy Kilgour.
Name
J. N. Kilgour
Also known as:
  • Jack Kilgour
  • J. Kilgour
  • J. Noel Kilgour
  • Noel Kilgour
Birth date
1900
Death date
1987
Death place
None
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • c.1939- c.1987 Double Bay, Sydney, NSW
  • c.1931- c.1939 London, England, UK
Active Period
  • c.1927- c.1947
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

painter and illustrator, illustrated stories in Australia Week-end Book 1 (1942), e.g. drawing for Z.V. Webb’s 'Defeat’; a fat lady running from a fire for 'Fire!’, an article by Eva Linn; a bloodhound jumping at its German owner in order to eat him (but a very cheerful image) for M.W. Peacock’s 'In the Dead of Night’ (a Jewish Concentration Camp horror story), p.68; and a flying man for Don Edwards’s 'My Too Successful Pupil’, 106. Others in no.2 (1943) include p.68 (family looking at moon). In vol.3 (1944) his illustrations are mostly rather dark and straight, with a couple that are more linear, e.g. Yank soldier trying to shoot a dog for George M. Welch’s short story 'Vicksburg’ (60), a woman reading a newspaper for 'Appointment with Death’ by Jonathan Keon; a shopkeeper talking to a client for Gene Dowell’s 'The Great Australian Crime’, p.137 and a waitress pushing a plate onto a soldier’s chest for 'Reaction’ by Robina Sherwood (176). Nos 4 (1945) and 5 (1946) also have numerous small illustrated heads by Kilgour to the stories.

Stone lists 'J. Kilgour’ as one of the two artists who contributed to the one-off Offset Printing Company comic Action (c.1944) along with 'Theo”; he illustrated a story called 'Ronald Keene’. Mick Stone also attributes The Judy O’Neil Comic (c.1947) to Kilgour, but this looks far more like Kate O’Brien (ill. p.145).

Husband of painter Nancy Kilgour .

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Kate O'Brien
1914
Artist (Industrial / Product Designer), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Nancy May Kilgour
1908
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Eva Linn
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
spouse of
née Davidson Nancy May Kilgour
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Theo
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Z. V. Webb
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
M. W. Peacock
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Don Edwards
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
George M. Welch
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Jonathan Keon
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Gene Dowell
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Robina Sherwood
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Kilgour : a retrospective
6 October 1977- 30 October 1977
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Citations:
  • (c.1944), Action, (Place: Offset Printing Company, Sydney, NSW)
  • (1942), Australia Week-end Book [1], (Place: Ure Smith, Sydney, NSW)
  • Mendelssohn, Joanna, (1977), Kilgour - a retrospective, (Place: Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW)
  • McCulloch, A., (1984), Encyclopedia of Australian Art, (Place: Second edition, Melbourne, Vic.)
  • Stone, Mick, (1998), Australian Comics 1900-1960 - A Checklist, (Place: Bonzer : Australian comics 1900s-1990s, Shiell, Annette ed, National Centre for Australian Studies and Elgua Press, Melbourne, Vic)