Alexander Phillip Sass b. c.1870

Also known as Sas, Alek Sass, Alexander Phillip Williams, Alec Sass
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter)
Federation-era Melbourne painter and cartoonist who also spent time in New York and Sydney. Sass was a member of the Prehistoric Order of Cannibals, founded 1893.
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Citations

  • George Essex Evans (1910), 'Queensland Queen of the North. A Jubilee Ode’, Brisbane: Government Printer, illustrations by Sass.

  • 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.

  • Gibbney, H. J.; & Smith, Ann G. (eds.) (1987), 'A Biographical register 1788-1939 : notes from the name index of the Australian dictionary of biography’, Canberra, ACT : Australian Dictionary of Biography (& see bibliography).

  • 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).

  • Mahood, Marguerite (1973), 'The loaded line : Australian political caricature, 1788-1901’, Carlton, Vic : Melbourne University Press.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'Story of Australian Art’, Sydney, NSW : Angus & Robertson (facsimile 1980).

  • Moore, William (1907), 'Alex. Sass’, Native Companion, 12-02, n.p.

  • 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 54 (exhibition of original Smith’s Weekly cartoons now held in p.c).

  • Rees, Lloyd (1969), 'The Small Treasures of a Lifetime’, Sydney, NSW : Ure Smith.

  • Taylor, George (1902), 'The Spirit of Caricature in the Commonwealth : with incidental remarks on Australian “Black and White”’, Commonwealth Annual 2 (1902-3), pp 31-42.

  • Oldfield, Audrey (1994), 'Australian women and the vote’, Melbourne, Vic : Cambridge University Press, p 29.

  • 'NSW Death Records : 16668/1922’, New South Wales.

  • Sydney, NSW: Lone Hand.

  • (1935), Smith’s Weekly, 04-20, pp 20, 26.

See also

  • 'Photograph Taylor 36, also accompanying Moore's article in Native Companion.'.
  • 'Caricature by Harry Julius of 'Australian artist Alex Sass, who is making pictures among the skyscapers of New York', Bulletin 12 July 1917 (original ink and conté drawing in BFAG, cited Filmer).'.

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  • Black and white artists

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Related collections
  • City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC (collected in)
  • City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic. (collected in)