Claire Scott

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Early 20th century Melbourne illustrator and cartoonist who contributed to Melbourne Punch in 1924-25 and whose work was exhibited alongside Percy Leason and Will Dyson at an exhibition of Punch drawings at Melbourne's Athenaeum Gallery in 1927.
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illustrator [and cartoonist?], contributed to Melbourne Punch in 1924-25, eg. straight cover drawing of man handing over his pay to his large wife, vol.1 no.6 (22 January 1925), ill. Lindesay, WWW , 115. In 1927 Melbourne’s Athenaeum Gallery held an exhibition of original Melbourne Punch drawings by Percy Leason (over 200 works) and Will Dyson (80 works), plus a few b/w caricatures by Len Reynolds and illustrations by Claire Scott (1924-25). Several Dyson cartoons and three Leasons were purchased for the NGV, but no Scotts. There is some speculation that Claire Scott may not have been Australian.
She also illustrated 10 of the 12 serialisations of the novel Jacqueline by Georgia Rivers featured in Table Talk from 13/5/1926 to 29/7/1926.
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
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Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2020