B.E. Minns b. 17 November 1863

Also known as Benjamin Murray, Benjamin Edwin Minns
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
B.E. Minns was introduced to art by the young Charles Conder, with whom he shared rooms in the 1880s. He soon developed a successful career as the first significant freelance Bulletin cartoonist. He is also remembered for his sensitive watercolours. Subjects include Aboriginal and suffragette themes, as well as landscapes and portraiture.
Tags: Watercolours, Portraits of Aborigines

Citations

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : 925/1888; 2642/1869’.

  • 'NSW Death Records : 3058/1937’.

  • 'NSW Birth Records : 7420/1863’.

  • (2002), 'Australian and International Fine Art Auction’, Deutscher-Menzies, 08-28, Melbourne, Vic., lot 73.

  • (2002), 'Catalogue’, Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, NSW, 03-05, lots 177, 179.

  • (2001), 'Catalogue’, Sotheby’s, 05-07, lot 173.

  • (1988), 'Catalogue’, Sotheby’s, November, lot 330.

  • (1999), 'Australian and European Paintings’, Christies’ Australia, 04-27, Melbourne, Vic, lot 30.

  • (1996), 'Australian painting’, Christie’s Australia auction, part 2, 11-27, lots 354 (ill.) & 386.

  • (2003), 'Auction catalogue’, Christie’s Australia, 05-07, Melbourne, Vic., lot 371.

  • Rennik, 'Renniks’.

  • Minns, B.E. (c.1908), 'The Kiss of Dolly Day (compilation ML A827 F533 1/1A1)’.

  • Dedman, Roger (c.1999), 'Christie’s Australian Art Markets Handbook’, Christie’s Australia, Sydney, NSW, 1999/2002.

  • Johnson, Heather, 'The Art Patronage System in Sydney’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Kerr, Joan (1999), 'Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White’, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1979), 'The inked-in image – a social and historical survey of Australian comic art’, Hutchinson of Australia, Richmond, Vic, pp 13 & 15.

  • McCulloch, A. (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Second edition, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Moore, William (1914), 'B.E. Minns’, Sydney, NSW : Lone Hand, 03-02, pp 262-63.

  • Rafty, Tony with Mack, Brodie (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning’, Blaxland Gallery, September, Sydney, NSW.

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

  • Rolfe, Patricia (1979), 'The journalistic javelin – an illustrated history of the Bulletin’, Wildcat Press, Sydney, NSW, (distributed by Golden Press, Gladesville, NSW), especially p.270.

  • (1932), 'B.E. Minns number of Art in Australia’, Art in Australia Ltd, December, Sydney, NSW.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, 2 Volumes, (facsimile reprint, 1980).

  • Illustrated Sydney News.

  • Sydney Mail.

  • Sydney, NSW : Town and Country Journal.

  • (1891), Women’s Suffrage Journal 1/7, December.

  • Sydney, NSW : Bulletin.

  • 'Bohemians of the Bush’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • London, England, UK : Punch.

  • London, England, UK : The Strand Magazine.

  • London, England, UK : St Paul’s Magazine.

  • London, England, UK : The Bystander.

  • London, England, UK : Idler.

  • London, England, UK : Black and White.

  • London, England, UK : London Opinion.

  • Sydney, NSW : Lone Hand.

  • (2001), 'Watercolour and Drawing Fair’, February, London, England, UK.

  • 'Joan Kerr Archive’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • Minns, B. E., 'Independents of Paris’, Sydney, NSW : Lone Hand, August, pp 388-90.

  • Ingram, Terry (2001), Australian Financial Review, 02-01, p 17.

  • Jean Campbell, 'Minns, Benjamin Edwin (1863–1937)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University

    http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/minns-benjamin-edwin-7601/text13277

See also

  • 'Self-portrait, Lone Hand, 2 March 1914, page 263'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists