Dorothy Ellen Lindsay nee Simpson was born in 1912 in the Sydney suburb of Burwood. In 1936 she married Norman Andrews Lindsay. He had been born in Wauchope, near Port Macquarie in New South Wales, on 20 May 1904, son of Norman J. and Mary Lindsay; and died on 10 May 1982, aged 78, at Thurloo Downs via Bourke. (There does not appear to be any relationship to Norman Alfred Williams Lindsay).
The couple had two sons. During World War II (1939-1945), Dorothy Lindsay worked for the Red Cross, while her husband served in the Australian Army, rising to the rank of Captain. By 1968 they were living in Turner Avenue, Haberfield, New South Wales. In 1979 the Lindsays moved to Wauchope { war-hope }. Lindsay died on 1 May 2007, aged 94, in Port Macquarie Base Hospital.
Lindsay studied art at the Australian School of Sketching, Sydney, from 1927, and in the 1970s attended a course at the Royal Art Society, Sydney. In 1968 she joined the Drummoyne Municipal Art Society and the Ryde Art Society. In 1976 she founded the Ashfield Municipal Art Society. This society was quite active at first, with open competitions exhibited in Ashfield Town Hall, but existed for only a few years. She is known to have exhibited with at least the Drummoyne Municipal Art Society (now the Drummoyne Art Society Inc) and Ashfield Art Society. The only works known to the biographer are minor landscape works in oils dating from the late 1970s. She is represented in South Africa, Australia, Papua-New Guinea, England, France, Holland, Canada, and Japan (Dorothy Lindsay, pers. comm. 2002). Her signature was 'Dorothy Lindsay’ scratched into the paint.
- Writers:
- Rost, Fred
- Date written:
- 2011
- Last updated:
- 2011
