Ruby Lindsay b. 20 March 1887

Also known as Ruby Lind
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Graphic Designer)
Early 20th century Melbourne and London illustrator and cartoonist. Member of the influential Lindsay and (by marriage) Dyson families. She won several awards in her own right and after her marriage to Will Dyson, collaborated with her husband on black-and-illustrations and posters.
Tags: Black and white illustration, Spanish influenza, Feminism

Citations

  • (c.1998), '[Hordern House Acquisitions list]’, Sydney, NSW: Hordern House, Included a drawing of a little girl in her nightgown carrying a book.

  • Ambrus, Caroline (1984), 'The Ladies’ Picture Show’, Sydney, NSW: Hale & Iremonger.

  • Dyson, Will (1919), 'Poems in Memory of a Wife’, London, England, UK.

  • MacFall, Haldane (1911), 'A History of Painting’, London, England, UK.

  • Mendelssohn, Joanna (1988), 'Lionel Lindsay: An Artist and His Family’, London, England, UK : Chatto & Windus.

  • Moore, William (1932), 'Among my friends’, B.P. Magazine, 06-01.

  • Radford, Ron (1980), 'Art Nouveau in Australia’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic.

  • Sayers, Andrew (1989), 'Drawing in Australia’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Smith, Bernard (1986), '[Lindsay Family]’, Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, [Nairn, B. & Serle, G. (eds.)], Melbourne University Press, pp 106-115.

  • Dyson, Will, '[Undated fragment of letter to Norman Lindsay]’, Sydney, New South Wales: [held in] Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales: ML manuscript 742/12.

  • Jensen, John (1996), '“A Sort of Bird of Freedom”: Will Dyson cartoons, caricatures, drawings and satirical prints – many from the recently discovered Chanteau Collection’, Australian High Commission, Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, University of Kent at Canterbury, and Kent County Council (exhibition catalogue).

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

  • McMullin, Ross (1984), 'Will Dyson’, Sydney: Angus & Robertson.

  • Mills, Carol (1984), 'In black and white: The little known Lindsay, Ruby Lind’, This Australia, Winter, pp.80-85.

  • Mills, Carol (1981), 'The Lindsays as children’s book illustrators’, Lu Rees Archives Books and Authors (University of Canberra Library), pp.10-13,.

  • Mills, Carol (1984), 'Ruby Lindsay and Will Dyson in London’, This Australia.

  • Moore, William (1907), 'Careers for Australasian Girls IX – What the artist’s life offers’, New Idea, 12-06, p.849.

  • Moore, William (1907), 'Ruby Lindsay’, Native Companion, 12-02.

  • (1986), 'Ruby Lind’, Documentation on Australian Art (Conference Papers).

  • Daryl Lindsay (1965), 'The Leafy Tree’, Melbourne.

  • Joanna Mendelssohn (1996), 'Letters & Liars: Norman Lindsay and the Lindsay Family’, Sydney, Australia: HarperCollins.

See also

  • 'Heritage: Section 9, plate 373'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions