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.
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)