Gil Reed

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Bulletin cartoonist in the 1910s, Gil Reed's 'At the Art Gallery' featured in the 1999 State Library of NSW exhibition, Australians in black & white : the most public art.

cartoonist, drew a cartoon At the Art Gallery for the Bulletin in 1912, showing an ugly woman looking at the Venus de Milo, for which he was paid 15/-. The drawing was annotated to be reproduced 'small’. Used in Australians in black & white : the most public art , SLNSW 1999 b/w exhibition in comparison with Lionel Lindsay 's In the Bot. Garden about classical and real ideas of male beauty.

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007