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,sculptor, cartoonist, illustrator, print-maker, map maker and author. He also had an extensive career as an educator in Victoria. Especially noted for his wit and humor and economy of line in his Punch and Bulletin cartoons and vibrant range of linocut and silk screen Australian greeting cards produced during the 1950s and 1960s.
Tags: Greeting cards, Print-maker, Sculpture, Author, Designer, Map maker
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Name
Mr Anthony John Heriot Harvey
Also known as Tony Harvey (Also published as Anthony Harvey, briefly cartooning for Punch as John Harvey 1951-2, cartoons thereafter signed Harvey )
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Graphic Designer)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
  • Artist (Printmaker)
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer)
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Other Occupation
  • Teacher of Art and Craft (Victorian technical education system) (ANZSIC code: 8022) 1961 Collingwood, Melbourne, Vic.
  • Teacher of Art and Craft (Victorian technical education system - Watsonia Technical School) (ANZSIC code: 8022) 1962 Banyule, Heidelberg, Melbourne, VIC
  • Head of Advertising, Art/Design (ANZSIC code: 81) 1963 Prahran College of Fine Arts, Melbourne, VIC
  • Head Teacher, Art Department (Watsonia Technical School) (ANZSIC code: 8022) 1964 - 1968 Banyule, Heidelberg, Melbourne, VIC
  • Head Teacher, Art Department (Macleod Technical School) (ANZSIC code: 8022) 1969 - 1970 Banyule, Heidelberg, Melbourne, VIC
  • Head Teacher, Art Department (Keon Park Technical School) (ANZSIC code: 8022) 1971 - 1974 Reservoir, Victoria
  • Executive Officer of the Art and Craft Teachers’ Association (ANZSIC code: 9551) c.1971 - 1974 Melbourne, Victoria
  • Teachers’ Representative on the Four Person Standing Committee for Art in Technical Schools (ANZSIC code: 9551) c.1971 - 1974 Melbourne, Victoria
  • Author and illustrator of craft books for children, 'The Melbourne Book' (ANZSIC code: 5413) 1968 - 1998 Melbourne, Victoria
  • Greeting cards (designer, printer, publisher and distributor) (ANZSIC code: 54) 1954 - 1964 Richmond & then Eltham, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • Illustrator of books (for children and adults) (ANZSIC code: 9002) 1962 - 1982 Melbourne, Victoria
  • Cartoonist for 'Punch', 'The Spectator', 'Lilliput' and 'London Opinion' magazines (ANZSIC code: 9002) 1952 - c.1974 London, England, UK
  • Cartoonist for 'The Bulletin' and KG Murray Publishing Company (ANZSIC code: 54) 1953 - c.1965
  • Sculptor in papier mache/card (ANZSIC code: 9002) c.1958 - c.1980 Melbourne, Victoria
  • Ilustrator and author of Anthony Harvey Pictorial Maps (24 City Guides) (ANZSIC code: 9002) -
  • Graphic illustrator/designer for Australian Industrial Publications Pty Ltd 1978 - 1991 Hawthorn, Melbourne, Vic.
Tags:
Greeting cards
Print-maker
Sculpture
Author
Designer
Map maker
Birth date
25 May 1930
Birth place
Leura, NSW, Australia
Birth note
Moved to Victoria in 1931 and Melbourne in 1939.
Death date
27 July 2014
Death place
Port Melbourne, Victoria
Burial place
St Kilda, Melbourne, Vic.
Active Period
  • c.1950 - c.2014
Residence
  • 1951 - 1953 Europe & United Kingdom
  • 1953 - 1954 Balaclava, Melbourne, Victoria
  • 1955 - 1960 Richmond, Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1961 - 1962 St Kilda, Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1961 - 1978 Eltham, Melbourne, Victoria
  • 1979 - 1980 East Melbourne, Vic
  • 1980 - 1981 Hawthorn, Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1982 - 1985 Richmond, Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1986 - 1996 Carlton, Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1996 - 2014 Port Melbourne, Vic.
Training
  • Certificate of Commercial art and design, c.1947 - c.1949 Melbourne Technical College, Melbourne, VIC
  • Diploma of Graphic Art and Design , 1961 - 1964 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Vic.
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

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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. Longman Australia, 1968>, <ExternalResource: Anthony Harvey, The Melbourne Book. Introduction: Phillip Adams, Hutchinson 1982.>, <ExternalResource: Helen Hewson. The Greeting Cards of Anthony Harvey, World of Art & Antiques, Issue 72, Feb-Aug, 2007, pp.180-6.>, <ExternalResource: Hewson, Helen. Tony Harvey obituary: 'Versatile designer's greeting cards brought wit and sophistication to Australian motifs'. The Melbourne Age, 13 September 2014. >, <ExternalResource: Felix Behrend. Ulysses' Father. Illus. Anthony Harvey, Melbourne: F.W.Cheshire, 1962.>, <ExternalResource: Anthony Harvey. Commercial Art, Fashion Drawing, Cartooning Course. Stott's Technical Correspondence College, Melbourne 1963.>, <ExternalResource: The Eltham Cookbook for Shillinglaw Cottage. Anthony Harvey contributor. Melbourne: Jonker, 1964.>, <ExternalResource: Anthony Harvey. Cartoon: 'It's the way they draw these wretched tables.' In The Bulletin Book-a selection from the 1960's, Melbourne" F.W.Cheshire,1966 p.50. E.H. Gombrich reproduced this cartoon in The Image and the Eye, London: Phaidon, (1982)1994, pp.201>] [<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. Longman Australia, 1968>, <ExternalResource: Anthony Harvey, The Melbourne Book. Introduction: Phillip Adams, Hutchinson 1982.>, <ExternalResource: Helen Hewson. The Greeting Cards of Anthony Harvey, World of Art & Antiques, Issue 72, Feb-Aug, 2007, pp.180-6.>, <ExternalResource: Hewson, Helen. Tony Harvey obituary: 'Versatile designer's greeting cards brought wit and sophistication to Australian motifs'. The Melbourne Age, 13 September 2014. >, <ExternalResource: Felix Behrend. Ulysses' Father. Illus. Anthony Harvey, Melbourne: F.W.Cheshire, 1962.>, <ExternalResource: Anthony Harvey. Commercial Art, Fashion Drawing, Cartooning Course. Stott's Technical Correspondence College, Melbourne 1963.>, <ExternalResource: The Eltham Cookbook for Shillinglaw Cottage. Anthony Harvey contributor. Melbourne: Jonker, 1964.>]