Norman Lindsay b. 1879

  • Artist
Extremely well-known Australian artist, author and cartoonist, Lindsay produced a prolific number of illustrations, cartoons, prints, drawings and paintings throughout his career. He worked as a cartoonist for the Bulletin for a number of years but is arguably best known for the children's classic 'The Magic Pudding' which he wrote and illustrated in 1918.

Citations

  • Jensen, John, 'Australasian Cartoonists in Britain 1889-1988’.

  • Berg, de Hazel, 'Oral History Tape’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • Caban, Geoffrey (1983), 'A Fine Line’, Hale & Iremonger.

  • Cook, David (1986), 'Picture postcards in Australia 1898-1920’, Lilydale, Vic : Pioneer Design Studio.

  • Hall, John (1910), 'Norman Lindsay’, Lone Hand 6, Feb, pp 349-60.

  • Hopkins, Dorothy (1929), 'Hop of the Bulletin’, Angus and Robertson, NSW.

  • Johnson, Joseph (1994), 'Laughter and the Love of Friends – A Centenary History of the Melbourne Savage Club 1894-1994 and A History of the Yorick Club 1868-1966’, Melbourne Savage Club, Vic.

  • Kerr, Joan (1999), 'Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White’, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

  • King, Jonathan (1979), 'The other side of the coin – a cartoon history of Australia’, Cassell Australia (Revised edition), Stanmore, NSW.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1964), 'The Comic Art of Norman Lindsay’, Overland 30, Spring, pp 35-40.

  • Lindsay, Norman (1910), 'That popular myth – The Lady’, Lone Hand, 02-01, pp 413-417.

  • Mendelssohn, Joanna (1996), 'Letters & liars – Norman Lindsay and the Lindsay family’, Angus & Robertson, Pymble, NSW.

  • Mills, Carol (1991), 'The New South Wales Bookstall As A Publisher’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, Volume 2, (facsimile reprint, 1930), pp 116-8.

  • Prunster, Ursula (1979), 'Norman Lindsay – Centenary Exhibition of Graphic Art’, Catalogue, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW.

  • Smith, Beaumont (1908), 'Norman Lindsay’, Gadfly, 03-11, p 15.

  • Smith, Bernard (1966), 'Lindsay family’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, Volume 10, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Stephens, A.G. (1912), 'Black-and-Whiters – II, The Moral of Norman Lindsay’, Bookfellow, 11-01, pp 290-91.

  • Stewart, Douglas (1975), 'Norman Lindsay: A Personal Memoir’, Thomas Nelson (Australia).

  • Stone, Walter (1973), ’50 Years of the Newspaper Cartoon in Australia’, Adelaide, SA.

  • (1941), 'War Cartoons and Caricatures of the British Commonwealth’, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada.

  • Taylor, George (1902), 'The Spirit of Caricature in the Commonwealth : Black and White’, Commonwealth Annual 2, pp 31-42.

  • Fullerton, P.R. (1978), 'Black and White – The war cartoons of Norman Lindsay in The Bulletin, 1914/1918’, Master of Arts thesis, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Prunster, Ursula (1985), 'The pagan in Norman Lindsay – an interpretation of Norman Lindsay’s graphic art.’, Thesis, Master of Art, University of Sydney, NSW.

  • Bloomfield, Lin (1998), 'The Complete Etchings of Norman Lindsay’, Odana Editions.

  • Howarth R.G. and Barker A.W. (ed) (1979), 'Letters of Norman Lindsay’, Angus & Robertson.

  • Lindsay, Norman (1970), 'My mask – for what little I know of the man behind it, an autobiography’, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, NSW.

  • Lindsay, Norman (1918), 'The Magic Pudding’, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Joan Kerr Archive’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

See also

  • 'Reyner Hoff, Norman Lindsay, bronze bust edn 19/70 (lot 94, Sotheby's auction of 27-28 August 2001'.
  • 'Mick Paul, caricature of Norman Lindsay as preacher arm in arm with a naughty lady, Lone Hand June 1907, 15'.
  • 'Hugh McCrae, caricature of Norman Lindsay smoking 1907 (Dixon Library pd 714)'.
  • 'David Low, 'Norman Lindsay and Souter Swop Models - Souter gets a Low deal here, the bear getting off with his cat', Lone Hand 1 April 1914, 318 (reproduced Bulletin 1956)'.
  • 'Norman Lindsay takes his models for a walk - small stooping Lindsay holding the hands of two enormous females (ill. Caban, 38, King, 89)'.
  • 'Will Dyson, caricature of Norman Lindsay with nude and devil, in 1907 Society of Artists catalogue, 35'.
  • 'self-portrait caricature ill. Lindesay 1994, 21'.
  • 'The Pat Corrigan Collection of Art Related Books, Letters and Photographs, Paintings and Drawings, Sotheby's Melbourne 29 April 1998, lot 219'.
  • 'Norman Lindsay's Book has a good self portrait as a street hawker carrying a tray full of his characters, mimograph screenprint 35/590 inscribed 'Archie with the photographer's best regards N.L''.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists