Mr Anthony John Heriot Harvey b. 25 May 1930

Also known as Tony Harvey
  • Artist (Graphic Designer),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Harvey was a designer, cartoonist, illustrator, print-maker and author. He also had an extensive career as an educator in Victoria. He is especially noted for his greeting cards and book illustration.
Tags: Greeting cards, Print-maker, Sculpture, Author
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Cartoonist and illustrator, produced cartoons and greeting cards in the late 1950s and 1960s. The Sydney Bulletin and London Punch were his chief cartoon outlets, but he also drew them for the Spectator and Lilliput , while in Sydney his wordless, witty and often cruel line drawings commonly about life’s losers also appeared in K.G. Murray publications. Harvey’s Christmas cards were typically Australian versions on traditional English Yuletide themes: a kangaroo eating a plum pudding, Santa sunbaking or water-skiing, a man with a horse and buggy taking a Christmas tree to his rural Oz home (the NGA has an almost complete set). In the 1990s-2000s he designed, researched and wrote broadsheet Pictorial City Guides to c.25 cities, the latest being Berlin (2001).

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Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007

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References [<ExternalResource: Max Harris: 'The Christmas Cards of Anthony Harvey', in Australian Letters, A Quarterly Review of Writing and Criticism, Volume 2, Number 3 (December 1959), pp 42-43 and front cover. "The leading talent is Anthony Harvey... has managed to produce designs unmistakably Australian in character and informed by a humour which is sophisticated but never vulgar or pseudo- funny. To these virtues must be added the superb quality of his hand-colour- printing...">, <ExternalResource: Hewson, Helen (Dr) (sister of Anthony Harvey). Information from Harvey family archive.>, <ExternalResource: Hewson, Helen. Tony Harvey obituary: 'Artist had wit and style ahead of his time'. Sydney Morning Herald, 21 September 2014.>, <ExternalResource: Anthony Harvey. The Australian boys' book of crafts, pets, sports and hobbies. Longmont,1980.>, <ExternalResource: Anthony Harvey. The Melbourne book / compiled and illustrated by Anthony Harvey; introduction by Phillip Adams>] [<ExternalResource: Max Harris: 'The Christmas Cards of Anthony Harvey', in Australian Letters, A Quarterly Review of Writing and Criticism, Volume 2, Number 3 (December 1959), pp 42-43 and front cover. "The leading talent is Anthony Harvey... has managed to produce designs unmistakably Australian in character and informed by a humour which is sophisticated but never vulgar or pseudo- funny. To these virtues must be added the superb quality of his hand-colour- printing...">, <ExternalResource: Hewson, Helen (Dr) (sister of Anthony Harvey). Information from Harvey family archive.>, <ExternalResource: Hewson, Helen. Tony Harvey obituary: 'Artist had wit and style ahead of his time'. Sydney Morning Herald, 21 September 2014.>]