Virgil Reilly b. 1892

Also known as Virgil Gavan Reilly, Virgil
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Cartoonist, creator of the "Virgil girls" and illustrator of Kenneth Slessor's poetry.

Citations

  • 'Man’.

  • 'Australian Women’s Weekly’.

  • 'Bulletin’.

  • 'Smith’s Weekly’.

  • 'Lone Hand’.

  • de Berg, Hazel (c.1972), 'Oral History Tape’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia.

  • Blaikie, George (1975), 'Remember Smith’s Weekly? : a biography of an uninhibited national Australian newspaper, born 1 March 1919, died 28 October 1950’, Adelaide, SA : Rigby.

  • King, J. (1979), 'The other side of the coin : a cartoon history of Australia’, Stanmore, NSW : Cassell Australia.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1994), 'Drawing from life : a history of the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales Press.

  • Rafty, Tony; Mack, Brodie (1946), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning’, 09, Sydney, NSW : Blaxland Gallery.

  • Rainbow, Brenda (1998), '“Golden Years of Cartooning” 1920 to 1940: Featuring the works of Stan Cross & more than twenty cartoonists of the same era’, Coffs Harbour, NSW : Bunker Cartoon Gallery.

  • Slessor, Kenneth & Reilly, Virgil (1933), 'Darlinghurst Nights’, Sydney, NSW : Johnson, Frank C. (reprint, A&R, Sydney 1981).

  • Dutton, Geoffrey (1991), 'Kenneth Slessor’, Ringwood, Vic : Viking.

  • 'Truth’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • 'Sydney Daily Mirror’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Judd, Craig (1999), 'Australians in black & white : the most public art’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists