R. Douglas Fry b. 1872

Also known as Robert Douglas Fry, Douglas Fry
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter)
Federation English-born Sydney equestrian painter and magazine illustrator. Fry taught Norman Lindsay to ride.

Citations

  • 'New South Wales Death Records: 11049/1911’.

  • Lindsay, Lionel (November 1911), 'Douglas Fry, painter of horses’, Lone Hand 10, Sydney, NSW, pp. 63-73, November, .

  • (1910), Art and Architecture, Sydney, NSW, Number 7.

  • McCulloch, A. and McCulloch, S. (1994), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW.

  • (1929), 'Fifty Years of Australian Art: 1879-1929’, Royal Art Society of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Sydney Mail, Sydney, NSW.

  • Information sourced from Riddler, Eric.

  • Macleod, Conor (1931), 'Macleod of the Bulletin’, Sydney, NSW, p.34.

  • Anon (1907), 'Artists Divided: Second Body Formed: New Controlling Methods: Encouragement of the Professional: Exhibition Proposals’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, NSW, August 02.

  • (3 August 1907), 'Dissenting Painters: Recrudescence of the Society Of Artists: Two Views of the Picture’, Daily Telegraph, Sydney, NSW.

  • Ashton, Julian (1907), 'Artists Divided’, Sydney Morning Herald, August 10.

  • (1907), 'Society of Artists’, Sydney Morning Herald, August 15.

  • (16 August 1907), 'Society of Artists: Re-Inaugural Exhibition: An Interesting Collection’, Daily Telegraph, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1911), '[Funeral notice]’, Sydney Morning Herald, July 11.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists