Benjamin Edwin Minns b. 17 November 1863

Also known as Benjamin Murray, B. E. Minns
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter)
Federation era painter, cartoonist and illustrator. Minns is considered to be the first significant freelance Bulletin cartoonist. His subjects include Aboriginal and suffragette themes, as well as traditional landscapes and portraiture.
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Citations

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : 925/1888; 2642/1869’.

  • 'NSW Death Records : 3058/1937’.

  • 'NSW Birth Records : 7420/1863’.

  • (2002), 'Australian and International Fine Art Auction’, Deutscher-Menzies, 08-28, Melbourne, Vic., lot 73.

  • (2002), 'Catalogue’, Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, NSW, 03-05, lots 177, 179.

  • (2001), 'Catalogue’, Sotheby’s, 05-07, lot 173.

  • (1988), 'Catalogue’, Sotheby’s, November, lot 330.

  • (1999), 'Australian and European Paintings’, Christies’ Australia, 04-27, Melbourne, Vic, lot 30.

  • (1996), 'Australian painting’, Christie’s Australia auction, part 2, 11-27, lots 354 (ill.) & 386.

  • (2003), 'Auction catalogue’, Christie’s Australia, 05-07, Melbourne, Vic., lot 371.

  • Rennik, 'Renniks’.

  • Minns, B.E. (c.1908), 'The Kiss of Dolly Day (compilation ML A827 F533 1/1A1)’.

  • Dedman, Roger (c.1999), 'Christie’s Australian Art Markets Handbook’, Christie’s Australia, Sydney, NSW, 1999/2002.

  • Campbell, Jean (1966), 'Benjamin Edwin Minns (1863-1937)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, Pike, D., Shaw, A., Clark, M., Nairn, B., Serle, G., and Ward, R., eds, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Johnson, Heather, 'The Art Patronage System in Sydney’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Kerr, Joan (1999), 'Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White’, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1979), 'The inked-in image – a social and historical survey of Australian comic art’, Hutchinson of Australia, Richmond, Vic, pp 13 & 15.

  • McCulloch, A. (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Second edition, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Moore, William (1914), 'B.E. Minns’, Sydney, NSW : Lone Hand, 03-02, pp 262-63.

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

  • Rainbow, Brenda (1998), 'Golden Years of Cartooning, 1920 to 1940 – Featuring the works of Stan Cross & more than twenty cartoonists of the same era’, Bunker Cartoon Gallery, Coffs Harbour, NSW :.

  • Rolfe, Patricia (1979), 'The journalistic javelin – an illustrated history of the Bulletin’, Wildcat Press, Sydney, NSW, (distributed by Golden Press, Gladesville, NSW), especially p.270.

  • (1932), 'B.E. Minns number of Art in Australia’, Art in Australia Ltd, December, Sydney, NSW.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, 2 Volumes, (facsimile reprint, 1980).

  • Illustrated Sydney News.

  • Sydney Mail.

  • Sydney, NSW : Town and Country Journal.

  • (1891), Women’s Suffrage Journal 1/7, December.

  • Sydney, NSW : Bulletin.

  • 'Bohemians of the Bush’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • London, England, UK : Punch.

  • London, England, UK : The Strand Magazine.

  • London, England, UK : St Paul’s Magazine.

  • London, England, UK : The Bystander.

  • London, England, UK : Idler.

  • London, England, UK : Black and White.

  • London, England, UK : London Opinion.

  • Sydney, NSW : Lone Hand.

  • (2001), 'Watercolour and Drawing Fair’, February, London, England, UK.

  • 'Joan Kerr Archive’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • Minns, B. E., 'Independents of Paris’, Sydney, NSW : Lone Hand, August, pp 388-90.

  • Ingram, Terry (2001), Australian Financial Review, 02-01, p 17.

See also

  • 'Self-portrait, Lone Hand, 2 March 1914, page 263'.

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Related collections
  • University of Western Australia, James Watson Collection, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Castlemaine, Vic. (collected in)
  • City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic. (collected in)
  • Brisbane Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong, NSW (collected in)
  • Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld (collected in)
  • University of Western Australia, James Watson Collection, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Castlemaine, Vic. (collected in)
  • City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic. (collected in)
  • Brisbane Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong, NSW (collected in)
  • Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld (collected in)