Philip William May b. 22 April 1864

Also known as Phil May, Philip May William
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Significant English cartoonist who worked in Sydney and Melbourne for three years in the late Colonial period: "a rival to Charles Keene as England's greatest cartoonist ever". He drew several strong anti-Chinese images in Sydney.

Citations

  • (September 1903), 'Catalogue of drawings by Phil May for the “Bulletin”’, W Bradley & Co., Sydney, NSW, .

  • Holyoake, Mary (intro.) (1985), 'V.A.S. Heritage Exhibition’, Victorian Artists’ Society, Melbourne, Vic, (includes ill. of ink drawing formerly owned by Doug Hall).

  • (1975), 'Drawings by Phil May’, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England, UK (catalogue).

  • Daplyn, A.J., '[Reminiscences of Phil May in Sydney]’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (Newspaper cuttings v.1, 28-29, ML Q991.N), Sydney, NSW.

  • Dart, Peter (c.1970), 'Cartoonists of the Bulletin’, Thesis FA IV, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.

  • F., W., 'Phil May, A Master of Line – Some contemporary criticisms’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (Newspaper Cuttings 1, 24-25, ML Q991.N), Sydney, NSW.

  • Gayll, A. (1888), 'The History of Botany Bay’, (reprinted from Bulletin), Sydney, NSW.

  • Greenwall, Ryno; & Carruthers, Jane (intro.) (1992), 'Artists & illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War’, Fernwood Press, Johannesburg, South Africa (Thorold’s Africana Books [distributor], Vlaeberg, South Africa).

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

  • Hopkins, Livingston (1914), 'Hop – his confessions’, Sydney, NSW: Lone Hand, 06-01, pp 16-20.

  • Hopkins, Livingston, 'Hop Scrapbooks’, Sydney, NSW [held by] Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

  • Jensen, John (1989), 'Australasian Cartoonists in Britain 1889-1988 (Working Paper 43)’, Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London, England, UK.

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

  • Lindesay, Vane (1994), 'Drawing from life – a history of the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club’, State Library of New South Wales Press, Sydney, NSW, p 96.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1963), 'Phil May’, Overland 27-28 (winter-spring), Melbourne, Vic., pp 29-33.

  • McCulloch, Alan; & McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'Encyclopedia of Australian art’, Allen & Unwin (3rd revised edition), St Leonards, NSW.

  • May, Phil (c.1896), 'Phil May’s Guttersnipes’, Leadenhall Press, London, England, UK.

  • May, Phil (1903), 'Phil May’s Sketch-Book’, Chatto & Windus, London, England, UK.

  • May, Phil, 'Phil May manuscripts’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Moore, A. M. (comp.) (1900), 'The Phil May Album’, Methuen, London, England, UK.

  • Rolfe, Patricia (1979), 'The journalistic javelin – an illustrated history of the Bulletin’, Wildcat Press, Gladesville, NSW (distributed by Golden Press, Sydney, NSW).

  • Stephens, A.G. (intro.) (1904), 'Phil May in Australia’, Bulletin Newspaper Co, Sydney, NSW.

  • Syer, W. (1908), 'Phil May and his photographs’, Australian Magazine, pp 668-77.

  • Tanner, Les (23 December 1963), 'Black and White Art in Australia’, Current Affairs Bulletin, Volume 33, Number 3, 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 2 (1902-3), pp 31-42.

  • Thorpe, James (1932), 'Phil May Draughtsman and Humorist’, George G. Harrop, London, England, UK.

  • (1948), 'Phil May’, Art & Technics, London, England, UK.

  • (1903), 'List of May drawings made for “The Bulletin” and reports of sales of work’', ML Q771M, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1913), 'Phil May – A humorist and his art’, Life, February, pp 161-65.

  • Kerr, Joan, 'Joan Kerr Archive’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

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

  • Cook, David (1986), 'Picture postcards in Australia 1898-1920’, Pioneer Design Studio, Lilydale, Vic.

  • Grant, Ian F. (1980), 'The unauthorized version – a cartoon history of New Zealand’, Cassell, Auckland, NZ.

  • Bills, Mark (2006), 'The Art of Satire’, Museum of London, London, England, UK (catalogue).

  • Information sourced from Hall, Doug.

  • Ingram , Terry (1999), 'Sales of the century’, Art & Australia 37/2, p 271.

  • J. Lake (28 October 1903), ''Phil May’, his Australian sketches: their value examined’, Melbourne Herald 28 October 1903.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists