Mervyn Officer b. 4 December 1906

Also known as Vyvyan Officer
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mervyn Officer is described as a commercial artist in an 1941 obituary for his father, the Secretary of the Victorian Graziers Association. He was a student at the National Gallery School (1926, 1927) also illustrated theatre programmes (1926). By 1931, he was exhibiting landscape works at Tavistock House and abstract watercolour works at the Athenaeum Gallery in 1932.
Tags: illustrator, painter, watercolorist
exhibited at
Contemporary Art Society's Anti-Fascist Exhibition
Date
4 January 1943 - 25 January 1943
Place
Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Anti-Fascist Exhibition
Date
8 December 1942 - 18 December 1942
Place
Athenaeum Art Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Exhibition of furniture, pictures and applied art
Date
17 November 1931 - c.November 1931
Place
Tavistock House, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria
Type
Exhibition