Lenore O'Brien

Also known as Sybil Lenore Née Goodwin O'Brien (attributed)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mid 20th century Sydney illustrator and cartoonist.
Name
Lenore O'Brien
Also known as Sybil Lenore Née Goodwin O'Brien (attributed)
Death date
1969
Death place
Campbelltown, NSW
Death note
attributed
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Active Period
  • 1958
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

illustrator and cartoonist, did the illustrations in John Fairfax’s Laughter in the Camp ed. Archer Russell (Warwick Boyce, Sydney, 1958), a posthumous collection of Fairfax’s essays (mostly WWII), journalism, book reviews and other occasional writings sponsored by his mother (who signed JK’s copy, 'With Compliments from the Author’s Mother’). Lenore O’Brien’s drawings include cartoons such as a couple in a caravan, a man in a tree trying to catch birds, three blokes in overalls dozing on their brooms (all on dustjacket as well as inside). Many of the illustrations, however, are fairly straight portraits of soldiers and representations of places, scenes and objects. The cartoons aren’t especially well drawn or funny (rather undergraduate and wooden/untaught, in fact).

[Possibly Sybil Lenore O’Brien, née Goodwin, who married Bernard O’Brien, Sydney, 1947, and died Campbelltown, NSW, 1969.]

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
John Fairfax
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
William John Goodwin
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Ada Ann Goodwin
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
spouse of
Bernard O'Brien
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Archer Russell
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Citations:
  • NSW Marriage Records 21488/1947
  • NSW Death Records 23582/1969
  • Fairfax, John, (1958), Laughter in the Camp, (Place: Archer, Russell, ed., Warwick Boyce, Sydney, NSW)