Hugh Edward Maclean b. 1875

Also known as Huia, Torca, H. Malcolm, Alsto, M
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Early 20th century New Zealand born, Melbourne and Sydney based cartoonist. Maclean was a foundation member of the Society of Australian Black and White Artists in 1924 along with 24 other male cartoonists.

Citations

  • Fitz Henry, W. E. (14 December 1955), 'A galaxy of characters : Stories of Bulletin artists’, Sydney, NSW : Bulletin, pp 26-28, 32, (Long article on Bulletin artists largely based on Maclean’s reminiscences, with good caricatures of several cartoonists including Norman Hetherington by Frith).

  • The Bulletin (19 September 1951), 'Hugh MacLean Obituary’.

  • National Archives of Australia (16 October 1917), 'Australian Imperial Force World War I Service Record: MacLean, Hugh Edward’.

    http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=1964178

  • Sydney Morning Herald (24 August 1951), 'Death Notice: McLean, Hugh Edward’.

  • Mills, Carol (1991), 'The NSW Bookstall As A Publisher’, Canberra, ACT : Mulini Press.

  • Rolfe, Patricia (1979), 'The journalistic javelin : an illustrated history of the Bulletin’, Sydney, NSW : Wildcat Press ; Gladesville, NSW : distributed by Golden Press.

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

  • McMullin, Ross (1984), 'Will Dyson’, Sydney, NSW : Angus & Robertson.

  • Taylor, George (1902), 'The Spirit of Caricature in the Commonwealth : with incidental remarks on Australian “Black and White”’, in Commonwealth Annual no. 2, 1902-3, pp 31-42.

  • (1 December 1912), 'Black and Whiters: III. – Hugh Maclean’, in Bookfellow, pp 317-18.

See also

  • 'Rather ordinary portrait profile of Maclean as a round-faced beardless youth, signed 'C. Siemer' down the side, Bookfellow 1912.'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists