Stan Cross b. 3 December 1888

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Significant mid 20th century newspaper comic strip artist. Created 'Wally and the Major', 'The Potts' and 'For gorsake, stop laughing: this is serious!'.

Citations

  • Lindesay, Vane (1994), 'Drawing from Life: a history of the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club’, Sydney, New South Wales : State Library of New South Wales Press, (Material largely from Cross).

  • Lindesay, Vane, '[Material collected for 'Drawing from Life’]’, Sydney, New South Wales : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (ML PxA 641), Includes Cross’s letter to Blaikie re being a cartoonist on Smith’s (much of which is published in his book).

  • (25 November 1933), 'Mr and Mrs Pott-and Whalesteeth’, Smith’s Weekly supplement, Article about Stan Cross with illustrations by him, cited Caban, p41.

  • Arnold, John; and Morris, Deirdre (eds.) (1994), 'Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia’, Port Melbourne, Victoria : Reed Reference Publishing, p.134.

  • de Berg, Hazel, 'Oral History Tape’, Canberra, ACT: National Library of Australia.

  • Blaikie, G. (1975), 'Remember Smith’s Weekly? : a biography of an uninhibited national Australian newspaper, born 1 March 1919, died 28 October 1950’, Adelaide, Victoria : Rigby, pp. 58-67.

  • Caban, G. (c.1983), 'A fine line : a history of Australian commercial art’, Sydney, New South Wales : Hale & Iremonger, pp. 39-40.

  • Cross, Stan (c.1921), 'Australian Humour in Pen and Ink’, Sydney, New South Wales : A. C. Stanford, n.d.

  • Germaine, Max (1997), 'Max Germaine’s artists and galleries on CD-ROM [electronic resource] : the essential reference of contemporary art in Australia’, Millers Point, New South Wales : Macquarie MultiMedia.

  • Kemsley, James (1993), 'Stan Cross’, Melbourne, Victoria : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, [Ritchie, John (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1979), 'The inked-in image : a social and historical survey of Australian comic art’, Richmond, Victoria : Hutchinson of Australia.

  • Rafty, Tony; with Mack, Brodie (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning’, Sydney, NSW : Blaxland Gallery, 11-19 Sept 1964.

  • Rainbow, Brenda (1998), '“Golden Years of Cartooning” 1920 to 1940: Featuring the works of Stan Cross & more than twenty cartoonists of the same era’, Coffs Harbour, NSW : Bunker Cartoon Gallery.

  • Ryan, John (1979), 'Panel by Panel : a history of Australian comics’, Stanmore, NSW : Cassell Australia.

  • Shiell, Annette (ed.) (1999), 'Bonzer: Australian Comics 1900s-1990s’, Redhill South, Vic. : Elgua Media / Binara Publishing.

  • Shiell, Annette; and Unger, Ingrid (1994), 'Ace Biographical Portraits… 1930s-1990s’, Clayton, Vic. : National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University.

  • (1981), Age, 11-19.

  • (1980), Australian Magazine, (29-30 Nov 1980), p.3.

  • (1977), Herald, 06-17, p.3.

  • Information sourced from Cross, Sue.

  • Kerr, Joan (1999), 'Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White’, Sydney, New South Wales : S.H. Ervin Gallery.

See also

  • 'A different self-portrait (Cross collection) was in the Bunker Gallery exhibition 1998-99.'.
  • 'A self portrait in Smith's 25 April 1924, p.14 is captioned 'MAN: "You're not cross are you?"/ CROSS: "Har-har very good."/ People who get themselves disliked-the semi-idiot who jokes about your name'.'.
  • 'One of Cross and other male artists helping Joan Morrison out of an Easter Egg with Horseman behind, drawn by Frank Dunne, Smith's, 20 April 1935, p.20.'.
  • 'A less good naturalistic self-portrait (with another joke biography by Kenneth Slessor), captioned 'Cross, Stan, "Daddy," as the younger and more innocent artists call him', Smith's, 15 April 1933, p.3.'.
  • 'In line-up of portraits by Frank Dunne captioned 'Seeing's Believing-"Smith's" Artists On Parade' 30 July 1932, p.7, with description: 'STAN CROSS is a he-man with gold fillings. He is the only artist in Australia properly acquainted with the Douglas Credit.'.
  • 'Self-portrait with Wally and the Major on his knees as ventriloquist dolls (ill. Lindesay 1994 on contents page, and in Ryan).'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists