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."

Citations

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

  • Mills, Carol (1991), 'The New South Wales Bookstall as a Publisher’, Canberra, ACT : Mulini Press.

  • Information sourced from Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists