Cecil Lawrence Hartt b. 16 July 1884

Also known as Cec Hartt, Cecil Hartt, Cecil L. Hartt
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Early 20th century Melbourne-born Sydney and wartime newspaper cartoonist. He was the first president of the Australian Black and White Artists' Club (1924-30) formed on 17 July 1924.

Citations

  • 'see file’.

  • 'NSW Death Records : 9015/1930’.

  • 'First World War Emnabarkation Roll : A.I.F. 5th Infantry Brigade, 18th Infantry Battalion : “B” Company’.

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : 15881/1923’.

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : 4862/1909’.

  • (June 1997), '[cartoon printout]’, Perth, WA : Art Gallery of Western Australia, .

  • McCulloch, Alan & McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'Encyclopedia of Australian art’, St Leonards, Sydney, NSW.

  • Blaikie, George (1966), 'Remember Smith’s weekly? : a biography of an uninhibited national Australian newspaper, born : 1 March 1919, died : 28 October 1950’, Adelaide, SA : Rigby, pp 55-58, 80.

  • Caban, Geoffrey (1983), 'A fine line : a history of Australian commercial art’, Sydney, NSW : Hale & Iremonger, p 28.

  • Gibbney, H. J. ; Smith, Ann G. (eds.) (1987), 'A Biographical register 1788-1939 : notes from the name index of the Australian dictionary of biography’, Canberra, ACT : Australian Dictionary of Biography.

  • Hartt, Cecil (1917), 'Humorosities’, London, England, UK : Gordon & Gotch.

  • Jensen, John (1989), 'Australasian Cartoonists in Britain 1889-1988 (Working Paper 43)’, London, England, UK : Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies.

  • Kirkpatrick, Peter (1992), 'The sea coast of Bohemia : literary life in Sydney’s roaring twenties’, St Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press ; Portland, Or, USA : International Specialized Book Services [distributor].

  • Lindesay, Vane (1994), 'Drawing from life : a history of the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club Sydney’, NSW : State Library of New South Wales Press.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'Story of Australian Art’, Sydney, NSW : Angus & Robertson (facsimile 1980).

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

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

  • Stone, Walter (1973), ’50 years of the newspaper cartoon in Australia’, Adelaide, SA : The News, Adelaide in association with the Art Gallery of South Australia, p 78.

  • (1917), 'Cecil Hartt : An Australian Soldier Artist’, Sydney, NSW : Lone Hand, 02-01, p 147.

  • Coleman, Peter; Tanner, Les (1967), 'Cartoons of Australian history’, Melbourne, Vic : Nelson.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1994), 'Drawing from life : a history of the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales Press.

  • Information sourced from Baxter, Andrew.

  • Souter, Gavin (1981), 'Company of Heralds : a century and a half of Australian publishing by John Fairfax Limited and its predecessors, 1831-1981’, Carlton, Vic : Melbourne University Press.

See also

  • 'Self portrait as one of a full page of 'Smith's Artists' Merry Xmas drawn by all of them', Smith's 8 December 1923, 25.'.
  • 'Self portrait pointing a pencil at the globe 24 June 1922, 3.'.
  • 'Self portrait looking through telescope at a globe, used as header for 'All the News as seen by Cecil Hartt', Smith's Weekly 17 June 1922.'.
  • 'Self portrait (with biography) as a corporal in Trafalgar Square during WWI, taller than Nelson's column, in Humorosities.'.
  • 'Cecil Hartt's so-long to his models (he was six feet tall), Bulletin 3 June 1915, 11.'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists