John Eric Frith b. c.13 June 1908

Also known as John Frith, Tom Frith
  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mid 20th century Sydney and Melbourne cartoonist, caricaturist and sculptor.

Citations

  • Ashton, Adrian (1974), 'Sydney Savages, 1956-1974, Sydney Savage Club, 2nd edn’, Sydney, New South Wales, 1st edn; 1955.

  • McKechnie, Shirley (May 1994), '(interview with Frith for the NLA’s Oral History Project), NLA Oral Hostory Project tape TRC 3056’, Canberra, ACT: National Library of Australia, .

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

  • Jones, Phillip (2000), 'Everyman wit in pen and ink’, Australian, 11-22, p14 (obituary).

  • King, Jonathan (1979), 'The other side of the coin: a cartoon history of Australia’, Stanmore, New South Wales: Cassell Australia.

  • Lindsay, Vane (1970), 'The Inked-In Image: a survey of Australian comic art’, Melbourne, Victoria: Heinemann (1st edition).

  • Rafty, Tony and Mack, Brodie (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning’, Sydney, New South Wales: Blaxland Gallery.

  • Souter, Gavin (1981), 'Company of Heralds: a century and a half of Australian publishing by John Fairfax Limited and its predecessors, 1831-1981’, Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press.

  • Stewart, Douglas (1977), 'Writers of the Bulletin: 1977 Boyer Lectures’, Sydney, New South Wales: Australian Broadcasting Commission.

  • Stone, Walter (1973), ’50 years of the newspaper cartoon in Australia, The News (in association with the Art Gallery of South Australia), pp 76-77’, Adelaide, South Australia.

  • Wallish, Ned (2000), Sydney Morning Herald, 10-12, p21 (obituary).

  • Information sourced from Cuneen, Chris.

  • Kerr, Joan (1999), 'Artists and cartoonists in black and white’, Sydney, New South Wales: S.H. Ervin Gallery.

  • 'Joan Kerr Archive’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

See also

  • 'worried looking head and shoulders self portrait, the Australian, obituary, p. 14'.
  • 'self-portrait caricature holding up caricatures of Hawke and Fraser, Sydney Morning Herald, obituary (and invitation to his retrospective)'.
  • 'self-portrait profile caricature, Stone, p. 77'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists