Penleigh Boyd b. 15 August 1890

Also known as Theodore Penleigh Boyd
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter)
Early 20th century Melbourne painter and cartoonist and the son of painters Arthur Merric Boyd Snr and Emma Minnie Boyd. As a seargant in the AIF during WWI Penleigh Boyd drew numerous cartoons and sketches but he was also a painter whose work was hung on several occasions in the Royal Academy of Art in London.

Citations

  • Clark, Jane (2000), '[catalogue entry]’, Melbourne, Vic : in Sotheby’s Fine Australian and International Paintings, 05-02, lot 85.

  • Dobrez, Patricia & Herbst, Peter (c.1990), 'The art of the Boyds : generations of artistic achievement’, Sydney, NSW : Bay Books.

  • Gray, Anne (1984), 'Cartoons: the little incongruities of war’, Canberra, ACT : Journal of the Australian War Memorial 5, October, p 47.

  • 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, Vic : Melbourne Savage Club.

  • Kent, David A. (1987), 'Troopship literature: “A Life on the Ocean Wave” : 1914-19’, Canberra, ACT : Journal of the Australian War Memorial 10, April, cover and ill. 9.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'Story of Australian Art’, Sydney, NSW : Angus & Robertson (Facsimile 1980).

  • Tipping, Marjorie J. (1979), 'Boyd, Theodore Penleigh (1890 – 1923)’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, Melbourne University Press, pp 371-373.

  • Gray, Anne (1983), '[introduction]’, Canberra, ACT : Australian War Memorial, reprint of Penleigh Boyd’s 'Salvage’.

  • Boyd, Penleigh (1918), 'Salvage: Pictures and Impressions of the Western Front by An Australian Artist, Sergt Penleigh Boyd, Electrical & Mechanical Mining Co., A.I.F.’, London, England, UK : The British Australasian.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists