Robin Boyd b. 1919

Also known as Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Mid 20th century Melbourne Modernist architect, critic and illustrator and a prominent member of the artistic Boyd family dynasty. He is regarded as one of Australia's most significant modernist architects.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
Robin Boyd
Also known as Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd
Birth date
1919
Death date
1971
Death place
None
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Other Occupation
  • Architect
Active Period
  • c.1945- c.1971
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

architect.

Drew cartoons for his book, The Australian Ugliness , 1960.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
child of
Theodore Penleigh Boyd
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
relative of
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Edith Susan Gerard Anderson
Artist (Painter)
relative of
Merric Boyd
1888
Artist
child of
Penleigh Boyd
1890
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Penleigh Boyd
1890
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
commissioned
Grant Featherston
1922
Designer (Furniture Designer / Cabinetmaker), Designer (Industrial / Product Designer), Designer (Glass & metal Artist / Designer)
Boyd commissioned Featherson to create the Talking Chair for the Australian Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal.
Citations:
  • Boyd, Robin, (1952), Australia's Homes
  • Riddler, Eric, (1994), 'Illustrating the Australian Ugliness', (Place: Albury, NSW : Charles Sturt University, seminar paper)
  • Boyd, Robin, (1960), The Australian Ugliness, (Place: Melbourne, Vic : F. W. Cheshire)