Thomas Ellis Glover b. c.1891

Also known as Tom Glover, T. Ellis
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter)
Early 20th century painter and newspaper cartoonist who resided in Wellington, NZ, Melbourne and Sydney. Glover artistic skills first came to attention while working as an elevator boy in Wellington's King's Chambers where he decorated the lift with caricatures of passengers.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 13360/1938’.

  • Grant, Ian F. (1988), 'The Kiwi invasion that never stopped’, Sydney, New South Wales: Bulletin, 11-15, p 113, (corrects the earlier legend of Glover being given a State Funeral).

  • Moore, William (1934), 'Story of Australian Art (volume ii)’, Sydney, NSW : Angus & Robertson, p 120, (facsmile 1980).

  • Grant, Ian F. (1980), 'The Unauthorised Version: A Cartoon History of New Zealand’, Auckland, New Zealand: Cassell.

  • King, Jonathan (1979), 'The other side of the coin: a cartoon history’, Stanmore, NSW : Cassell Australia (Revised edition).

  • (1977), 'Collectors’ List 62A’, Paddington, NSW : Josef Lebovic Gallery, cats 19 & 20.

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

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

  • Grant, Ian F. (1989), 'Drawing the Line: Cartoons across the Tasman: an exhibition of work by New Zealand cartoonists’, Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of External Relations and Trade.

  • Information sourced from Diamond, Jo.

  • (1938), ''Authors and Artists’ (obituary)’, Sydney, NSW : Man, October, 4/5, p.6.

  • New Zealand Truth.

  • Rolfe, Patricia (1979), 'The journalistic javelin: an illustrated history of the Bulletin’, Sydney, NSW : Wildcat Press; Gladesville, New South Wales: Golden Press, p 166.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists