Stanley Parker b. c.1908

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
A mid 20th century Melbourne and London caricaturist, Parker specialised in caricatures of celebrities connected with the theatre.
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black-and-white artist, was born and worked in Melbourne. He specialised in caricatures of celebrities connected with the theatre and was caricaturist on Table Talk in the early 1930s when Percy Leason was the cartoonist. Parker lived in London from 1936, where he drew for the Bystander and Tatler . He revisited Australia in 1952. Andrea Hull emails (1999): 'Mary Cecil Allen’s 1935/36 scrapbook contains a terrific cartoon of his, with the caption “A very sophisticated time bomb. Mary Cecil Allen clad for cocktails, is let loose in local society”’.

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1996
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2007

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