George Finey b. 16 March 1895

Also known as George Edmond Finey
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mid 20th century Auckland and Sydney left-wing caricaturist, cartoonist, painter, sculptor and collage artist. Infamous for his bohemian lifetsyle.

Citations

  • 'NSW Marriage Records: 3147/1922’.

  • Lawlor, Pat (1932), 'NZ Artists’ Annual’.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1994), 'Finey 1895-1987: Last of the Bohemians’, Inkspot 24 (summer), pp 50-52, (revised version of Inked-In Image biography ill. with caricatures).

  • Grant, Ian F. (1989), 'Drawing the Line: Cartoons across the Tasman: an exhibition of work by New Zealand cartoonists’, Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of External Relations and Trade, p.5, exhibition toured Australian galleries, including the State Library of Western Australia. (Information courtesy of Jo Diamond).

  • Finey, George, 'Number Thirteen. George Finey Poems’, Katoomba, New South Wales, Portfolio of 40 decorated loose sheets of poems. Listed in Antique Bookshop, 1998.

  • Finey, George (1983), 'George Finey’s Puddy Plates’, Kenthurst, NSW: Kangaroo Press, a book of cat cartoons.

  • Finey, George (1976), 'Book of Finey [poems]’.

  • Fox, Len (ill. by Finey), 'Wealthy Men’, Sydney, NSW, done when both were at Tribune.

  • Finey, George (1975), 'Poems’.

  • Information sourced from Blaikie, pp 72-74.

  • Information sourced from biographical notes in DAA files Buscombe, Eve.

  • Information sourced from Caban, pp 29-30, 38, 40-47.

  • de Burgh, Hazel (1967), 'Interview with George Finey – Oral History Tape’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, 10-19.

  • Eagle, Mary (1990), 'Australian modern painting between the wars: 1914-1939’, Sydney, New South Wales: Bay Books.

  • Information sourced from C-D Rom Germaine, Max.

  • Grant, Ian F. (1988), 'The Kiwi invasion that never stopped’, Sydney, NSW: Bulletin, 11-15, p 113.

  • Jensen, John (1989), 'Australasian Cartoonists in Britain 1889-1988’, London, England.

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

  • Information sourced from Kirkpatrick, Peter.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1979), p.54.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Vic,: 2nd edn.

  • Rafty, Tony and Mack, Brodie (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning’, Sydney, NSW: Blaxland Gallery (catalogue) 11-19 Sept.

  • Rainbow, Brenda (1998), '“Golden Years of Cartooning” 1920 to 1940: Featuring the works of Stan Cross & more than twenty cartoonists of the same era, p.32’, Coffs Harbour, NSW: Bunker Cartoon Gallery (catalogue).

  • Information sourced from Senyard, June.

  • Stone, Walter (1973), p 76.

  • (1931), 'Caricatures of George Finey’, Sydney, NSW: Art in Australia, June 38/3.

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

  • (Gooding, Janda) (1997), 'AGWA cartoon computer list’, Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia, June.

  • Dixon, Christine, '(Sydney University Fine Arts thesis on the period and on Finey in particular)’, Sydney, NSW: University of Sydney.

  • (1986), 'Australian Black and White Artists’ Club Book of Originals’, Sydney, NSW: Australian Black and White Artists’ Club/ Art Gallery of New South Wales (178.1988.1-102).

  • Fox, Len (1996), 'Australians on the Left’, Marrickville, NSW: Southwood Press, pp.130-131.

  • Finey, George (1981), 'The Mangle Wheel: My Life’, Kenthurst, NSW: Kangaroo Press.

  • (1921), Sydney, NSW: Art in Australia, June.

  • Information sourced from 'Renniks Australian Artists’.

  • Information sourced from Holder, Jo.

  • (1931), Sydney, NSW: The Home, March, p 23.

  • Cumine, Geoffrey (1933), 'The Crimson Path’, Railroad, 11-10.

  • Faulconbridge, B. M. (1978), 'Looking for George Finey’, Melbourne, Vic.: Overland 69, pp 24-25.

  • Martin, Rachel (2004), 'Friends of the Gallery Research Project 3: George Finey (1895 – 1987) Born Auckland, New Zealand’, Emu Plains, New South Wales: Penrith Regional Gallery and Lewers Bequest.

  • (28 August 1944), ’1939-1944: Cartoons highlight five years of war’, Melbourne, Vic.: Salt, Vol. 8, No. 13, pp 1-6.

See also

  • 'illustration for poem 'Looking for George Finey' by B. M. Faulconbridge (including a self portrait?), Overland 69 (1978), 24-25'.
  • 'self portrait as part of a full page of 'Smith's Artists' Merry Xmas Drawn by all of them', Smith's Weekly 8 December 1923, 25'.
  • 'Finey by Wep 1941, ill. Lindesay Inkspot, 50'.
  • 'self portrait caricature, ill. King, 115, Ian F. Grant, 111'.
  • 'self-portrait head, ill. Stone, 76'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists