Ruth J. Simpson

Also known as Ruth J. Radcliff
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Federation era illustrator, who worked primarily on Steele Rudd's writings.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
Ruth J. Simpson
Also known as Ruth J. Radcliff
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Residence
  • c.1907 Glen Innes, New South Wales
Active Period
  • c.1904- c.1906
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

illustrator, did some of the illustrations in Steele Rudd’s Back at Our Selection (Brisbane 1906), first published as a serial in Steele Rudd’s Magazine , along with Ruby Lind , Ashton Murphy and Norman Lindsay. She also contributed to Sandy’s Selection by Steele Rudd (NSW Bookstall Co., Sydney 1904), which contained 40 illustrations also including drawings by Lionel Lindsay, Ambrose Dyson, Nuttall, Leist, A.J. Fischer and Harry Garlick. Was she a relative of Jessie Simpson (1875-1965) and hence of Tom Roberts?

There are 10 ink and 14 pencil sketches in the Dixson Library – not really cartoons but apparently relating to Back at our Selection (Mitchell Library).

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Tom Roberts
1856
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Ruby Lindsay
1887
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
E. Ashton Murphy
1874
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Norman Lindsay
1879
Artist
associate of
Lionel Lindsay
1874
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Ambrose Dyson
1876
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Amandus Julius Fischer
1859
Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
relative of
Jessie W. Simpson
1883
Artist (Painter)
possible relative
associate of
Harry Garlick
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Steele Rudd
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Leist Nuttall
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
spouse of
Crawford E. Radcliff
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Collections
Citations:
  • NSW Marriage Records : 7598/1907
  • Rudd, Steele, (1904), Sandy's Selection, (Place: Sydney, New South Wales: NSW Bookstall Co.)
  • Rudd, Steele, (1906), Back at Our Selection, (Place: Brisbane, Queensland)