Leonard H. Booth b. 1879

Also known as L. H. Booth, Leonard Booth, Leonard Hampden Booth
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter)
Influential early 20th New Zealand painter, art teacher, psychotherapist, cartoonist and illustrator, Booth contributed cartoons (from New Zealand) to the Bulletin and other Sydney publications. In 1909 he, Norman Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay and Norman Carter illustrated the reprint edition of Steele Rudd's "Our New Selection."

Influential New Zealand painter, art teacher, psychotherapist, cartoonist and illustrator, contributed (from New Zealand) to the Sydney Bulletin from c.1900, e.g. gags re: street urchins and an office clerk (ill. Lindesay 1979, 118, 120). Others include: 'THE ONE: “Since I have taken that treatment I have been a different woman.”/ THE OTHER: “I am so glad. And how pleased all your people must be”, 12 November 1914, 29; 'SUPERFLUOUS ADJECTIVES: (Little Girl) “What is redundancy, Pa?”/ (Artist) “Redundancy, my child, is the use of more words than are necessary to express one’s meaning – such as WEALTHY dealer, POOR artist”’, 24 June 1915, 34. For the NSW Bookstall Co. he illustrated – with Norman and Lionel Lindsay and Norman Carter – the 1909 edition of Steele Rudd’s Our New Selection , a reprint of the first edition, published by the Bulletin Newspaper Co. in 1903 which used earlier illustrations and text from the Bulletin .

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007