Bertha Bennet Burleigh

Also known as B. B. B., Bertha Nind
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Early 20th century cartoonist. Burleigh is an anomaly in the world of cartooning, especially at the Bulletin, due to being a woman. Her last known cartoons were published in 'Aussie' in 1934.

Citations

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

  • Angeloro, David (1992), 'Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Painter-Etchers 1800-1940’, Bronte, New South Wales: Australian Visual Arts Database, Discovery Media.

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

  • O’Sullivan, Margaret (Mahdi?) (1997), '“Australian Women Filmmakers, Cartoonists, and Photographers in the 1930s, the contexts in which they worked and the cultural themes they depicted”’, Sydney, NSW: University of Sydney PhD (?) thesis, History Dept.

  • Rolfe, Patricia (1979), 'The journalistic javelin: an illustrated history of the Bulletin’, Sydney, NSW: Wildcat Press / Gladesville, New South Wales: distributed by Golden Press.

See also

  • 'undated Bulletin original of man in evening dress haranguing a tight-lipped elderly lady at a ball (ML Px*D447/26) with address for payment verso, 'Writers Club, 10 Norfolk Street, Strand, WC2 London'. There is no gag or date of publication'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists