illustrator and commercial artist, was 'a young English artist’ who worked at Smith & Julius’s Sydney advertising studio in the early 1920s. Like several other young women in the firm, she drew illustrations for Home, Ure Smith’s more upmarket publication, e.g. comic illustrations of various female 'types’ for a story by Julia G. Lister, 'What in the world can he see in her?’ 1 June 1922, 32; a decorative block of a mermaid for Leon Gellert’s poem, 'The Sea Nymph’, 1 June 1922, 15; a nice art nouveau decoration to M. Forrest’s poem 'Kassaptu; The Assyrian Witch’, 1 June 1922, p.2x and another in similar vein for Gellert’s 'The Chase’, 1 September 1922, 6A; a block with mythical creatures for a play by Randolph Bedford, The Lost Illusion 1 June 1923, p 35. Her frontispiece for Home 4/2 (June 1923), 'At the private view of Longstaff’s Melba portrait at the recent exhibition of Australian art for London', depicts a gently caricatured crowd admiring a fairly straight depiction {photograph?} of the portrait.
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
