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Green, William Ellis, b. 1923

Prolific and popular mid 20th century Melbourne newspaper cartoonist. Green made his first artistic income painting Japanese flags while stationed in New Guinea during WW2. ...

Kelly, William J., b. 1943

Kelly came to Australia as a Fulbright scholar. He has worked in many media including drawing, painting, printmaking, theatre design, film and environmental projects. From ...

Maund, John Williams, b. 1876

John Maund (1876-1962) was a Sydney based watercolourist, arts administrator, solicitor and art collector.

McLaren, William George, b. 1923

Mid 20th century Melbourne cartoonist, animator and potter.

Mitchell, William, b. 1941

Popular late 20th century Perth and Sydney newspaper cartoonist. Mitchell won Stanley Awards for the best editorial/political cartoonist in 1985, 1987 and 1992.

Pidgeon, William Edwin, b. 1909

Popular mid 20th century Sydney cartoonist, illustrator, painter, sculptor and art critic. Pidgeon won the Archibald Prize three times - in 1958, 1961 and 1969, ...

Robinson, William, b. 1936

Queensland artist William Robinson's work ranged from whimsical self portraits to sublime landscapes. In later years he turned to a more domestic scale, painting still ...

Rushton, William, b. 1937

British cartoonist and comic actor who worked in Australian during the mid 1960s.

Williams, Caroline, b. 1945

New Zealand female painter who spent more time in London, Sydney and Melbourne where she married a gallery owner and exhibited extensively thereafter.

Williams, Fred, b. 1927

Fred Williams' paintings of the Australian landscape can be seen as a modernist reinterpretation of the Heidelberg tradition. He was a figurative artist who valued ...

Williams, Albert E.

A talented artist in his own right, Albert E. Williams was known as an art educator, teaching for many years at the Ballarat School of ...

Borlase, Nancy Wilmot, b. 1914

New Zealand-born Nancy Wilmot Borlase arrived in Sydney in 1937, studying sculpture under Lyndon Dadswell under space restrictions in her small bed-sit forced a change ...

Wilson Cooper

by Cooper, George Wilson.

Cooper, George Wilson, b. 1912

Wilson Cooper was a man of many parts but principally an accomplished watercolourist, a proficient cartoonist and animator, a capable sculptor and finally, a respected ...

Wilson, Lawrence George, b. 1920

Photographer, lived and worked in Geelong.

Wilson, Nell, b. 1901

Nell Wilson was a painter, commercial artist and art teacher. She was one of the Australia's most sought-after commercial illustrators in the late 1930s-40s. Wilson ...