Design and Art Australia Online

Eldershaw, John, b. 1892

A painter and poster designer who designed 'Historic Tasmania: Port Arthur' for the Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau in the 1940s.

Manley, Frank Davies, b. 1894

Manley was a prolific designer of Australian postage stamps 1929 - 1959.

Curtis, Robert Emerson, b. 1898

Mid 20th century illustrator and artist. In 1922 Curtis travelled to the USA with his great friend, the pioneer filmmaker, Charles Chauvel. There he developed ...

Annand, Douglas, b. 1903

One of Australia's best known graphic and poster artists, Douglas Annand also had a distinguished career as a camouflage artist during the Second World War. ...

Buzacott, Nutter, b. 1905

Buzacott was a printmaker, commercial artist (graphic designer), political illustrator, painter and teacher. A mural by Buzacott is also known. He travelled widely in Australia ...

Coventry, Frederick Halford, b. 1905

A painter, muralist, stained glass artist, glass painter & etcher, printmaker, poster-designer, art teacher, book-illustrator and designer, Frederick Halford Coventry's art practice encompassed both the ...

McClintock, Herbert, b. 1906

Mid 20th century political and surrealist painter, cartoonist, commercial artist and singer.

Philpot, Ernest Sidney, b. 1906

Painter, signwriter, poster artist and muralist who exhibited internationally and had a long association with art societies in Victoria and Western Australia.

Oldham, John Bramston Russell, b. 1907

Oldham worked as an architect, artist, interior designer and landscape architect. Working for Stephenson & Turner in NSW, he later focussed on landscape architecture, developing ...

Tyson, Geoffrey, b. 1911

Mid 20th century Launceston art teacher, painter and advertising artist. Known for sketches made while a Prisoner of War during WWII.

Hedstrom, Newton, b. 1914

Late 20th century painter, illustrator and commercial artist. Hedstrom was inaugural member of the Studio of Realist Art and served as its committee member in ...

Koskie, Jack Louis, b. 1914

Koskie was a representational painter and graphic designer. He was the chief designer of the Commonwealth Office of Education (Sydney) Sydney and the Tasmanian Government ...

Fabian, Erwin, b. 1915

Industrial designer, graphic artist, sculptor and one of the "Dunera Boys" interned in Hay, NSW, during World War II. In 1950 Fabian moved to London ...