illustrator and commercial artist, was 'a young English artist’ who worked at Smith & Julius’s Sydney advertising studio in the early 1920s. Like several other young women in the firm, she drew illustrations for Home , Ure Smith’s more upmarket publication, e.g. comic illustrations of various female 'types’ for a story by Julia G. Lister, 'What in the world can he see in her?’ 1 June 1922, 32; a decorative block of a mermaid for Leon Gellert’s poem, 'The Sea Nymph’, 1 June 1922, 15; a nice art nouveau decoration to M. Forrest’s poem 'Kassaptu; The Assyrian Witch’, 1 June 1922, p.2x and another in similar vein for Gellert’s 'The Chase’, 1 September 1922, 6A; a block with mythical creatures for a play by Randolph Bedford, The Lost Illusion 1 June 1923, p 35. Her frontispiece for Home 4/2 (June 1923), 'At the private view of Longstaff’s Melba portrait at the recent exhibition of Australian art for London’, depicts a gently caricatured crowd admiring a fairly straight depiction {photograph?} of the portrait.
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
