commercial artist, illustrated stories in Sydney Ure Smith and Gwen Morton’s Australia: National Journal and Australia Week-end Book vol.3 (1944), e.g. female dragging male away from femme fatale for John Cleary’s 'Surrealism and Butch’, p.22; a pair of hands holding women and children for D’Arcy Niland’s 'A Little Hour or Two’, p.70; a conspiratorial digger and an Arab for Allen Leslie’s 'Cure by Ordeal’, p.107; Italian greengrocer for Grace Villiers’s 'Swearing’, p.121; head in bottle looking at nude woman for Roger Welch’s 'You can’t have nightmares in the daytime’ (short story, p.152); and a line of women for Eve Merritt’s 'Lines on Ladies and Lotteries’ (p.138).

SLNSW holds 127 of Joyce Roseby’s drawings c.1930-40 (watercolour, ink, pencil, pastels), presented 1988. Most are studies of the human figure. Also includes advertising art, posters and cartoons

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Writers:

Kerr, Joan

Date written:

1996

Last updated:

2007