Unk White b. 1900

Also known as Cecil John White, Ung White
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Popular mid 20th century Auckland and Sydney cartoonist, illustrator and painter.

Citations

  • Gooding, Janda (June 1997), 'AGWA cartoon printout’, Perth, WA : Art Gallery of Western Australia [Information from], .

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

  • Blaikie, George (1966), 'Remember Smith’s weekly? : a biography of an uninhibited national Australian newspaper, born: 1 March 1919, died: 28 October 1950’, Adelaide, SA : Rigby.

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

  • Grant, Ian F. (1987), 'The unauthorized version : a cartoon history of New Zealand’, Auckland, NZ : David Bateman (in association with Fraser Books) (2nd edition).

  • Grant, Ian F. (15 November 1988), 'The Kiwi invasion that never stopped’, Sydney, NSW : Bulletin, p 112.

  • Grant, Ian F. (1989), 'Drawing the Line: Cartoons across the Tasman: an exhibition of work by New Zealand cartoonists’, Wellington, NZ : Ministry of External Relations and Trade (held in various Australian locations, including State Library of Western Australia: courtesy Jo Diamond).

  • Jensen, John (1989), 'Australasian Cartoonists in Britain 18 89-19 88 (Working Paper 43)’, London, England, UK : Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies.

  • Kirkpatrick, Peter (1992), 'The sea coast of Bohemia : literary life in Sydney’s roaring twenties’, St Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press ; Portland, Or, USA : International Specialized Book Services [distributor].

  • 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.

  • McCulloch, Alan; & McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'Encyclopedia of Australian art’, St Leonards, NSW : Allen & Unwin (3rd revised edition).

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

  • 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, p.56 (exhibition of original Smith’s Weekly cartoons now owned by Sue Cross).

  • Rolfe, Patricia (1979), 'The journalistic javelin : an illustrated history of the Bulletin’, Sydney, NSW : Wildcat Press ; Gladesville, NSW : distributed by Golden Press.

  • White, Unk, 'First Laugh Parade’, Sydney, NSW.

  • White, Unk (1940), 'One For the Road : Unk White’s Second Laugh Parade’, Sydney, NSW : Frank Johnson Publications (an anthology mainly from the Bulletin, including poems by Kenneth Slessor & stories by Phil Dorter and Will Lawson illustrated by White, plus sketchbook drawings and reminiscences).

  • Stewart, Douglas (1977), 'Writers of the Bulletin’, Sydney, NSW : Australian Broadcasting Commission.

  • Stone, Walter (1973), ’50 years of the newspaper cartoon in Australia’, Adelaide, SA : The News, Adelaide in association with the Art Gallery of South Australia.

  • 'PICMAN’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales.

  • Information sourced from Stewart, Leiba.

  • Kerr, Joan (1999), 'Artists and cartoonists in black and white’, Sydney, NSW : S. H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust of Australia (NSW).

  • Judd, Craig (1999), 'Australians in black & white : (the most public art)’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales.

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : 22725/1948’, New South Wales.

See also

  • 'IMAGES: Drunk working-class old woman with bottle "taking baby for a walk" (ML Bulletin original).'.
  • 'Photograph, Pix 6 May 1939, 21.'.
  • 'Photo at the 1938 Artists' Ball, Pix 23 April 1938, 34.'.
  • 'H. A. (Henry) Hanke did a painting of Unk White 'in fencing togs' (unlocated; it is mentioned in Unk White, 'My rendevous with reminiscence', Second Laugh Anthology 1940, p 22, and was possibly the portrait exhibited in the 1935 Archibald Prize).'.
  • ''Unk White Caught in the Act [of drawing a glamour girl] by Ron Broadley' (large Frank Johnson original, ML Px*D69/no.702).'.
  • 'Very good Ted Scorfield cartoon of Unk White and "family" (i.e. wife) as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Bulletin 1 April 1936.'.
  • 'Small younger self-portrait (ill. Stone, 9).'.
  • 'Good self-portrait head from the Artists' Atomic Ball program 1946 (illus. Lindesay 1994, 26).'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists