Rod Shaw b. 17 September 1915

Also known as Schweik, Roderick Shaw, Roderick Malcolm Shaw
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Designer (Graphic Designer)
Rod Shaw was a dominant figure in the left wing Studio of Realist Art in the 1950s while also being half of the progressive publisher, Edwards & Shaw which printed both the banned book The Trial of Lady Chatterely and the Art Gallery of New South Wales' catalogues. He was also well known as a painter,graphic artist, and cartoonist.
Tags: Political activism, Anti-war, Communist, Anti-censorship

Citations

  • Fox, Len (1996), 'Australians on the Left’, Marrickville, New South Wales: Southwood Press.

  • Healy, Evelyn (1993), 'Artist of the Left’, Sydney, New South Wales: Left Book Club.

  • Shaw, Roderick (1961), 'Half a mountain and the last of a town’, Melbourne, Victoria: Overland 20 (autumn 1961), pp 12-16 (illus. by author).

  • Information sourced from Riddler, Eric.

  • Shaw, Roderick (1945), 'Art Review: Sydney Group’, Sydney, New South Wales: Progress 18, 08-18.

  • Smith, Bernard (1946), 'Artist of the Month: Roderick Shaw’, Sydney, New South Wales: Progress, March, pp 52-53.

  • Stein, Harry (1996), 'From the Barn on the Hill to Edwards & Shaw’, Sydney: State Library of New South Wales.

  • 'PICMAN’, Sydney, New South Wales: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW (detailed list of Shaw material ML PXD 836).

  • Shaw, Roderick (et al) (1989), 'The Windsor group, 1935-1945’, Collaroy, New South Wales: Edwards & Shaw.

  • Merewether, Charles (ed.) (1984), 'Art & social commitment: an end to the city of dreams, 1931-1948’, Sydney, New South Wales: Art Gallery of New South Wales (catalogue).

  • (1992), '[obituary]’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12-08.

  • Roderick Shaw Collection

    http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemdetailpaged.aspx?itemid=7250

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists