Mr Anthony John Heriot Harvey b. 25 May 1930

Also known as Tony Harvey
  • Artist (Graphic Designer),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Harvey was a designer,sculptor, cartoonist, illustrator, print-maker, map maker and author. He also had an extensive career as an educator in Victoria. Especially noted for his wit and humor and economy of line as seen in his Punch and Bulletin cartoons and vibrant range of linocut and silk screen Australian greeting cards produced during the 1950s and 1960s.
Tags: Greeting cards, Print-maker, Sculpture, Author, Designer, Map maker
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Citations

  • Max Harris: 'The Christmas Cards of Anthony Harvey’, in Australian Letters, A Quarterly Review of Writing and Criticism, Volume 2, Number 3 (December 1959), pp 42-43 and front cover. “The leading talent is Anthony Harvey… has managed to produce designs unmistakably Australian in character and informed by a humour which is sophisticated but never vulgar or pseudo- funny. To these virtues must be added the superb quality of his hand-colour- printing…”

  • Hewson, Helen (Dr) (sister of Anthony Harvey). Information from Harvey family archive.

  • Hewson, Helen. Tony Harvey obituary: 'Artist had wit and style ahead of his time’. Sydney Morning Herald, 21 September 2014.

    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/obituary-graphic-artist-tony-harvey-had-wit-and-a-style-ahead-of-its-time-20140921-10jwky.html

  • Anthony Harvey. The Australian boys’ book of crafts, pets, sports and hobbies. Longmont,1980.

    http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9377889?selectedversion=NBD1689782

  • Anthony Harvey. The Melbourne book / compiled and illustrated by Anthony Harvey; introduction by Phillip Adams

    http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/26371664?q=+anthony+harvey&c=book&versionId=45413028

  • Helen Hewson. The Greeting Cards of Anthony Harvey, World of Art & Antiques, Issue 72, Feb-Aug, 2007, pp.180-6.

  • Hewson, Helen. Tony Harvey obituary: 'Versatile designer’s greeting cards brought wit and sophistication to Australian motifs’. The Melbourne Age, 13 September 2014.

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