Wynne W. Davies

  • Designer (Graphic Designer)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mid 20th century cartoonist and illustrator.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
Wynne W. Davies
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Designer (Graphic Designer)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Active Period
  • 1937
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

commercial artist and cartoonist, drew illustrations in the Australian Women’s Weekly especially to accompany romantic stories (e.g. couple in one another’s arms, ill. Lindesay WWW, 133). He also did advertisements and covers for the Weekly , movie promotions and 'humorous art’ for the Bulletin and other journals. After three years in America and a period of freelancing in Australia, when he continued to contribute to the Weekly on a casual basis, he re-joined the Weekly in 1937.

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Thora Ungar
1911
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
Citations:
  • (24 July 1937), 'Mr Wynne W. Davies', (Place: Australian Women's Weekly, Sydney, New South Wales, p 30)
  • Rafty, Tony with Mack, Brodie, (September 1964), Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning, (Place: Sydney: Blaxland Gallery)
See also:
  • illustration Lindesay WWW, p 133