Percy Leason b. 25 February 1889

Also known as Percy Alexander Leason
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter)
Percy Leason is best known as a black and white illustrator but his portraits of Aboriginal subjects completed 1929-1934 make an important contribution to the history of Aboriginal representations.

Citations

  • (September 1934), 'The Last of the Victorian Aborigines’, Melbourne, Vic., Issued in Connection with an Exhibition at the Athaneum Gallery, Collins Street Melbourne September 1934).

  • Blake, L. J. (November 1968), 'Percy Leason: Artist, cartoonist and Historian’, Victorian Historical Magazine, Vol 39, No. 4, pp.158-180, Address given to the Victorian Historical Society, 27 August 1968. Reprinted as above.

  • (13 July 1929), 'Letter to the editor’, Melbourne, Vic. : Herald, ALSO: 1934-09-10, p.8; 1934-09-11.

  • 'see bibliography’.

  • 'MS8636 Percy Leason papers’, LaTrobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Burn, I. (1990), 'National Life and Landscape: Australasian Painting 1900-1940’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Downer, Christine, 'A Prophecy Unfulfilled: The Last of the Victorian Aborigines by Percy Leason’, Koori History, pp.39-40.

  • Kleinert, S. (1999), 'On the Identity Politics of the 1929 Exhibition of Primitive Art in Melbourne’, Signatures, Vol 5, no 3.

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  • (2000), 'Recognition: Percy Leason’s Aboriginal Portraits’, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT.