Phil Goatcher b. 23 November 1851

Also known as Phillip William Goatcher
  • Artist (Theatre / Film Designer)
Phillip William Goatcher, a theatrical scene painter, was born in England in 1851, trained in 1867 as an apprentice scene painter in Melbourne, where he returned as a star scenic artist in 1890, after a long career in New York. In 1903 he left the eastern states with his son James Goatcher for Perth, WA, where they went into business as "Phil W. Goatcher & Son", shop and house decorators.
Tags: set design, decorator, Wunderlich, interior design

Citations

  • Bordman, Gerald (2004), 'Oxford Companion to American Theatre’, Oxford University Press, New York.

  • (8 January 1892), 'A Scenic Artist at Work’, Table Talk, Melbourne.

  • (31 October 1890) 'Mr Philip Goatcher’, Table Talk, Melbourne.

  • Callaway, Anita (2000), 'Visual Ephemera: Theatrical Art in Nineteenth-Century Australia’, UNSW Press, Sydney.

  • Taylor, Toso (1894), 'Cinderella and the Little Glass Slipper [pantomime libretto]’, Lyceum Theatre, Sydney.

  • Hough, David (15 October 1991), 'Remembrance of Scenes Past’, Bulletin, Sydney.

  • 'An Ex-Scene Painter’s Protest’ (March 1882), Art Amateur, New York.

  • McPherson, Ailsa (2010), 'Goatcher, Philip W’, Dictionary of Sydney.

    http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/goatcher_philip_w

  • (27 December 1890), ''A Strange Career: Sketches by a Scenic Artist’ nos 1-15’, Australian Star, Sydney.

  • (26 March 1893), 'Evolution of a Scenic Artist’, Morning Call, San Francisco.

  • (11 March 1927), 'Man of Many Parts’, New Zealand Herald, Auckland.

  • (c.1993), 'Boulder Town Hall—Register of Heritage Places—Assessment Documentation’, Heritage Council of Western Australia.

    http://register.heritage.wa.gov.au/PDF_Files/B%20-%20A-D/Boulder%20Town%20Hall%20(P-AD).PDF

  • “The New Palace Theatre” Reference to his role in design of Wunderlich Patent Ceiling for the New Place Theatre, Pitt Street. Sydney Morning Herald, 19 May 1996, p.4

    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14049966?searchTerm=Phillip%20William%20Goatcher