Blamire Young b. 9 August 1862

Also known as W. Blamire Young, William Blamire Young
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Originally a mathematics teacher, the English born Blamire Young established himself as an illustrator, painter, designer, writer and art critic. An article in 'Art and Australia' in 1921 described Young as being '6' 3" high, aesthetic, virile, uniting the Cambridge manner with the Bohemian Spirit (and with) a picturesque and paradoxical personality'.
Tags: Poster art, Watercolour, Art Nouveau, Art and advertising, Art criticsm, The Beggarstaffs

Citations

  • Hurst, Nevin (2002), 'Australian Artists Colonial to Contemporary: A Spring Exhibition’, Masterpiece Fine Art Gallery catalogue (September-October), Hobart, Tas., cat. 60., researcher – Curnow, Heather.

  • (6 July 1899), 'At the sign of the poster girl’, Melbourne, Vic.: Cycling News, vol. 1, no. 25, p 372, Cycling News references: Volume and Number may be misprinted.

  • (1898), 'Cycle Posters: How they are drawn: An interview with a designer by a Reflector’, Melbourne, Vic.: Cycling News, vol. 3, no. 66, 02-02, pp 16-17, Cycling News references: Volume and Number may be misprinted.

  • Fink, Elly (1990), 'Young, William Blamire’.

    http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/young-william-blamire-9218

  • Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape’.

  • Bruce, J. F.; et al. (1921), 'The Art of Blamire Young’, Art in Australia Ltd.

  • Croll, R.H. (1929), 'Blamire Young: re-creator of history’, Melbourne, Vic.: Herald, 04-24.

  • Fink, Elly (1983), 'The Art of Blamire Young’, Sydney, New South Wales: Golden Press.

  • Ingram, Terry (1981), 'Pumped up poster price inflates art values further’, Sydney, NSW: Australian Financial Review, 07-10, p 43.

  • Lindsay, Lionel (1935), 'The late Blamire Young’, Art in Australia, Series 3, Number 57.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian art’, Melbourne, Victoria: Hutchinson of Australia (2nd revised edition).

  • (1996), 'Australian Prints’, Bridget McDonnell Gallery catalogue (29 October-22 November), Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1900), 'Blamire Young poster artist’, Outpost, 09-08.

  • (1900), '[Blamire Young lecture on posters]’, Arena, 10-06, p 17.

  • Fink, Elly (1990), 'Young, William Blamire (1862 – 1935)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vol 12, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Victoria, pp 599-600.

  • (1896), 'Blamire Young second exhibition of posters’, Studio, Volume 7, pp 172-73.

  • Young, W. Blamire (1907), 'Fremiet’s “Gorilla and Woman”’, Lone Hand 1, June, pp 226-29.

  • Caban, Geoffrey (1983), 'A fine line: a history of Australian commercial art’, Sydney, New South Wales: Hale & Iremonger, p.55.

  • Marshall, Stephen (2013), 'The Watercolours of Blamire Young’, Sydney, New South Wales: Meridian

See also

  • ''A Print from Johnny Fawkner's Press' 1902, woodcut 15.4 x 15.4 cm (ML copy SSV*PRI 3), Lone Hand (source unconfirmed)', A print from Johnny Fawkner's press / Brings thoughts to gentle minds unbidden / If Johnny then had printed less / Should we be now so hard press-ridden.
  • ''The Poet' (a `Bohemian' to illustrate Victor Daley's verses, Lone Hand, 1 June 1907', His grey wife labored sick and cold / Dreaming of bread his children slept / And o'er the woe of Queen Isold / The poet wept and wept and wept.

Initial data sources

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