Livingston Hopkins b. 1846

Also known as Hop, Livingstone Hopkins
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
A conservative and influential late colonial era Bulletin cartoonist, who came to Australia after a successful career in the US. He was known as an anti-suffragist and anti-royalist who habitually ignored Norman Lindsay, even after being introduced to him many, many times.

Citations

  • Hopkins, Livingston, 'Livingston Hopkins, Cartoons, etc’, 28 vols of cutting books kept by Hop from the New York Daily Graphic 1874-82 and the Bulletin 1883-1925 (Mitchell Library).

  • Hopkins, Livingston (1913), 'Hop his confessions – Chapters from the Autobiography of Livingston Hopkins illustrated by himself’, Lone Hand, December -June, very detailed, humorous and generally accurate serialised autobiography, with many illustrations.

  • Sandes, John (1927), 'A Little Boy From Manly’, Smith’s Weekly, 09-03, p.17, Ostensibly obit. but only tells the story of Little Boy from Manly.

  • Hopkins, Hattie F. (1950), 'Hop’, Sydney, NSW: Bulletin, 03-01, p.35, (written in response to comments made by Norman Lindsay in the 1950 Jubilee issue).

  • Bright, C. (Mrs) (1895), 'Mr Livingston Hopkins’, Cosmos, pp.349-53.

  • Caban, Geoffrey (c.1983), 'A fine line – a history of Australian commercial art’, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, NSW, pp.31-33.

  • Information sourced from: Cook, David.

  • F., P. (1927), 'Hop as I first met him’, Commonwealth Home, September, p.37.

  • (1906), 'On the Hop : A Great Australian Humorist and His Work’, Fitchett, W.H. (Rev), ed., Life, 01-15, pp.53-58.

  • Foyle, Lindsay, 'Oz’, p 62.

  • Hopkins, Dorothy June (1929), 'Hop of the Bulletin’, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, NSW.

  • Hopkins, Livingston (1880), 'A Comic History of the United States’, American Book Exchange, New York, NY, USA (reprint 1969).

  • Jensen, John (1989), 'Australasian Cartoonists in Britain 1889-1988’, London, England, UK.

  • Kerr, Joan (1999), 'Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White’, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

  • King, Jonathan (1979), 'The other side of the coin – a cartoon history of Australia’, Cassell Australia (Revised edition), Stanmore, NSW.

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

  • Lindsay, Norman, 'Bohemians of the Bulletin’, Sydney, NSW.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Hutchinson of Australia, Second edition, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Thoms, Albie and Prunster, Ursula (1990), 'Bohemians of the Bush’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Rafty, Tony with Brodie, Mack (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning’, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

  • Rolfe, pp. 43, 45-46, 181.

  • Stephens, A.G. (1905), 'Livingston Hopkins – comic artist’, Review of Reviews (Australasian Edition), February, pp.143-150.

  • Tanner, Les (1963), 'Black and White Art in Australia’, Current Affairs Bulletin, Volume 33, Number 3, 12-23, Sydney, NSW, pp.33-47.

  • Taylor, George (1902), 'The Spirit of Caricature in the Commonwealth – With incidental remarks on Australian “Black and White”’, Commonwealth Annual, Volume 2, pp.31-42.

  • (1903), 'Livingston Hopkins’, All About Australians, 05-02, p 47 ff.

  • (1911), 'Good Australians – a series of character studies’, Sydney, NSW : Lone Hand, Issue 8, February, pp. 288-90.

  • Dart, Peter (c.1970), 'Cartoonists of the Bulletin’, Thesis, Fine Arts IV, Power (Scaheffer) Research Library, University of Sydney, NSW.

  • Gooding, Janda (1997), 'Art Gallery of Western Australia cartoon printout’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, June.

  • Information sourced from Ryan, Anne.

  • Hopkins, Livingston (1915), 'On the Hop – anthology’, Bulletin, Sydney, NSW.

  • Hopkins, Livingston (1907), 'Cremona to Cremorne’, Sydney, NSW: Lone Hand, May, pp.135-39.

  • Hopkins, Livingston (1907), 'The poetry and prose of Spring’, Sydney, NSW: Lone Hand 1, September, p.471.

  • Hopkins, Livingston (1907), 'The evolution of the horse’, Sydney, NSW: Lone Hand 2, November , p.16.

  • Lindsay, Norman (1950), '[article]’, Bulletin, Jubilee Issue, Sydney, NSW.

  • USA : Wild Oats.

  • USA : Judge.

  • USA : New York Daily Graphic.

  • USA : Harper’s Weekly.

  • USA : Harper’s Magazine.

  • USA : Harper’s Bazaar.

  • USA : Harper’s Young People.

  • USA : St Nicholas.

  • USA : The Century.

  • USA : Toledo Blade.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists