A. Stuart Peterson b. 1900

Also known as Stuart Peterson, Stewart Peterson, Archibald Stuart Peterson
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mid 20th century New Zealand and Australian newspaper cartoonist and caricaturist
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Name
A. Stuart Peterson
Also known as:
  • Stuart Peterson
  • Stewart Peterson
  • Archibald Stuart Peterson
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Other Occupation
  • Cartoonist (ANZSIC code: 9002)
Birth date
1900
Birth place
Adelaide, South Australia
Death date
1976
Active Period
  • c.1927 - c.1945
Residence
  • c.1934 - c.1945 Sydney, New South Wales
  • c.1927 - c.1934 Wellington, New Zealand
  • c.1925 - c.1926 Melbourne, Victoria
Training
  • National Gallery School, Melbourne, Vic
  • c.1925 - c.1926 National Gallery School, Melbourne, Victoria
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

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Alternative names
  • Stuart Peterson
  • Stewart Peterson
  • Archibald Stuart Peterson
  • Stuart Peterson
  • Stewart Peterson
  • Archibald Stuart Peterson
Related people
  • Glover, Tom (associate of)
  • Glover, Tom (associate of)
Related person groups
  • New Zealand Free Lance (associate of)
  • Sun (Sydney) (associate of)
  • Sunday Sun (associate of)
  • Bulletin (associate of)
  • New Zealand Free Lance (associate of)
  • Sun (Sydney) (associate of)
  • Sunday Sun (associate of)
  • Bulletin (associate of)
Related works
  • A High Exchange Altitude Record? (creator of)
  • The Universal Squeeze (creator of)
  • Handicapped by their Friends (creator of)
  • Slaying the Goliath of Unemployment (creator of)
  • The Old Horse Takes the Road Again (United Political Party) (creator of)
  • A High Exchange Altitude Record? (creator of)
  • The Universal Squeeze (creator of)
  • Handicapped by their Friends (creator of)
  • Slaying the Goliath of Unemployment (creator of)
  • The Old Horse Takes the Road Again (United Political Party) (creator of)
Related collections
  • New Zealand Cartoon Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • New Zealand Cartoon Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
Related events
  • 50 years of the newspaper cartoon in Australia (None)
  • Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning (None)
  • War Cartoons and Caricatures of the British Commonwealth (None)
  • 50 years of the newspaper cartoon in Australia (None)
  • Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning (None)
  • War Cartoons and Caricatures of the British Commonwealth (None)
Field Changes
Biography cartoonist and caricaturist, was born in Adelaide. After studying art at the National Gallery Schools in Melbourne he spent eight years as editorial cartoonist on the _New Zealand Free Lance_ (1927-34), e.g. _The Old Horse Takes the Road Again_ (United Political Party) 1928 (ill. Grant, 114), _Slaying the Goliath of Unemployment_ 1929 (ill.119), _Handicapped by their Friends_ 1931 (ill.122), _The Universal Squeeze_ 1932 (ill.121) and _A High Exchange Altitude Record?_ 1932 (Heath Robinson/ Emmett style inflation of a cow to help farmers). He returned to Sydney in 1934 and freelanced until employed by the Sydney _Sun_ and _Sunday Sun_ to draw the main political cartoons after Tom Glover died in 1938. His original _Sun_ cartoons include ones about Sir Eric Spooner (Spooner Papers ML), done in 1934 as a freelance, and ones done on 13 October 1938 and in 1939 as straight political cartoons when Spooner had become deputy leader. A wartime cartoon of world leaders (reproduced _Pix_ 12 May 1945, 30) calls him 'Stuart Peterson of Sydney "Sun"'. He was included in the National Gallery of Canada's _War Cartoons and Caricatures of the British Commonwealth_ at Otttawa in 1941. Two original cartoons dated 1944 and 1945 are in the Mitchell Library (PXD 764). The National Library of Australia, Canberra, has a plate of 'Ever feel like this?' showing a huge bomb as an owl gazing at the world as a mouse, evidently from the _Sun_ . F.F. Lynx, _The Pen is Mightier_ (Lindsay Drummond Ltd, Great Britain 1946) and/or Joseph Darracott, _A Cartoon War_ (London, 1989) illustrated his _Keeps Rolling Along_ of 1943 showing Stalin as a bulldozer.


Peterson contributed to the _Bulletin_ in the 1920s and 1930s (included in c.1930s list of Bulletin Artists, Px*D557 pt 5 '46'). 8 original cartoons of 1923-37 and 117 caricatures of 1923-28, many of NZ subjects, are in the ML _Bulletin_ collection.