William Lister Lister b. 27 December 1859

Also known as William Lister-Lister, W Lister
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
As well as being a prolific landscape artist, Lister was President of the Royal Art Society of NSW and a trustee of the National Art Gallery of NSW.

Citations

  • Ashton, Julian (28 August 1912), 'The Royal Art Society’s Exhibition’, Sydney Mail, Review of 1912 RAS spring exhibition.

  • 'various sources’.

  • McCarthy, C.B. (Rev) (September 1946), 'William Lister Lister’, National Gallery of NSW, Biographical article in the 1946 'Lister Lister Memorial Exhibition’ catalogue.

  • (c.1929), 'Fifty years of Australian Art 1879-1929’, Royal Art Society Press, Sydney, NSW.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'Story of Australian Art (volume I & II)’, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, NSW.

  • (8 November 1943), 'Artist Killed by Taxi’, Sydney Morning Herald, p 6.

  • (3 September 1946), 'Lister Listers place in Art’, Sydney Morning Herald, p 4.

  • Fenton-Smith, J. (1986), 'Lister, William Lister (1859-1943)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography (volume 10), Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1 December 1899), 'Mr WM. Lister Lister’, Australasian Art Review, pp 9-10.

  • (7 April 1900), 'Artists in Australia – IV – W. Lister Lister’, Sydney, NSW : Bulletin.

  • Souter, D.H. (1905), 'W. Lister Lister, painter, president of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales’, Art & Architecture, Jan-Feb issue.

  • MacNally, M.J. (26 November 1926), 'A Pioneer of Australian Art’, Sydney, NSW : Daily Telegraph.

  • Butel, Elizabeth (1985), 'Margaret Preston’, Penguin Books, p 7.

  • Johnson, Heather (1997), 'The Sydney Art Patronage System 1890-1940’, Bungoona Technologies, Grays Point, NSW.

  • (1 September 1915), 'William Lister-Lister’, Sydney, NSW : The Lone Hand, pp 250-251.

See also

  • 'Late life photograph of Lister by Squire Morgan', published in the 1946 'Lister Lister Memorial Exhibition' catalogue.
  • 'Caricature of William Lister Lister by Low (David Low)', published in the Bulletin (6 August 1930 p 14).
  • 'Photograph of William Lister Lister (c.1905)', published in the Jan/Feb 1905 issue of Art & Architecture magazine (p 21).