Charles Hallett

Also known as Charlie Hallett
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mid 20th century Sydney magazine cartoonist. Stylistically, Hallett's drawings are extremely varied, from conventional hard linear outlines to elaborate even fussy fantasy curlicues.

Citations

  • Caban, Geoffrey (1983), 'A fine line : a history of Australian commercial art’, Sydney, NSW : Hale & Iremonger, pp 38, 43.

  • Blaikie, George (1 March 1919), 'Remember Smith’s weekly? : a biography of an uninhibited national Australian newspaper, born: 1 March 1919, died: 28 October 1950’, Adelaide, SA : Rigby, pp 71-72.

  • 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, p.34.

  • (1941), 'War Cartoons and Caricatures of the British Commonwealth’, Ottawa, Canada : National Gallery of Canada.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1979), 'The inked-in image : a social and historical survey of Australian comic art’, Richmond, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (new edition), pp 214, 235.

See also

  • 'Self Portrait in full page 'Smith's Artists' Merry Xmas drawn by all of them', Smith's Weekly 8 December 1923, p 25'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists