Bruce Leslie Petty b. 1929

Also known as Bruce Petty
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Designer
Popular and prolific Melbourne, London and Sydney based newspaper cartoonist, film-maker, animator, sculptor and etcher
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Citations

  • Petty, Bruce (1968), 'The Best of Petty’, Horwitz, Sydney, NSW.

  • Adams, Phillip (1986), 'Arrest that Cartoonist!’, Penguin, Ringwood, Vic.

  • Foyle, Lindsay (1988), 'Cartoonists of 1988’, Bulletin, November, 15, Sydney, NSW, page 95.

  • Jensen, John (1989), 'Australasian Cartoonists in Britain 1889-1988’, Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London, England, UK, page 10.

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

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

  • King, Jonathan (1979), 'The other side of the coin – a cartoon history of Australia’, Cassell Australia (Revised edition), Stanmore, NSW.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian art’, Hutchinson of Australia (2nd revised edition), Melbourne, Vic.

  • Petty, Bruce (1967), 'Petty’s Australia Fair’, F.W. Cheshire (reprinted as Bruce Petty, Petty’s Australia – And How It Works, Penguin 1976), Melbourne, Vic.

  • Petty, Bruce (1972), 'The Penguin Petty’, Penguin.

  • Petty, Bruce (1983), 'Petty’s Money Book’, Dominion Press, Vic.

  • Petty, Bruce (1997), 'The Absurd Machine’, Penguin, Ringwood, Vic.

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

  • Rolfe, Patricia (1979), 'The journalistic javelin – an illustrated history of the Bulletin’, Wildcat Press, Sydney, NSW (distributed by Golden Press, Gladesville, NSW), page 271.

  • (1991), 'Labor in cartoons – cartoons of the Australian Labor Party in Victoria 1891-1990’, Senyard, June, ed., Hyland House, South Yarra, Vic.

  • Smith, Robert (1973), 'The imagery of Bruce Petty’, Art and Australia, Volume 10, Number 4, April, Sydney, NSW, pages 372 ff.

  • (2000), 'In Their Image’, Turner, Ann, ed, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • (1966), 'No Holts Barred’, Walsh, Richard, ed, Sun (36 cartoons from the Australian 1965-66), Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1967), 'Gough Syrup’, Walsh, Richard, ed, Sun, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (18 March 1989), 'Bruce Petty: The thinking person’s sketch symbol’, Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, pages 70-76, Sydney, NSW.

  • Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1986), 'Australian Black and White Artists Club book of originals’, Australian Black and White Artists Club (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 178.1988.1-102), Sydney, NSW.

  • de Burgh, Hazel, 'Oral History interviews’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • Turner, Ann, 'Oral History interviews’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • Baxter, Andrew, Information from.

  • Hansen, Guy (2005), '[Cartoons 2004] Behind the lines – The year’s best cartoons’, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • (2003), 'Best Australian political cartoons 2003’, Radcliffe, Russ, ed., Scribe, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (2004), 'Best Australian political cartoons 2004’, Radcliffe, Russ, ed., Scribe, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (2005), 'Best Australian political cartoons 2005’, Radcliffe, Russ, ed, Scribe, Melbourne, Vic.

See also

  • ''Report Card', Weekend Australian (Media) 1-7 April, 1999, 6 (6 self portraits with a comment by each cartoonist himself (sic), an artist and a politician (anon).'.
  • 'Self portrait Overland 67 (1977), page 66'.
  • 'Self-portrait chained to drafting stand (King, 8)'.
  • '(Self?) portrait (ill. King, 185)'.
  • 'Petty, self-portrait cartoon on front page of the Age (Melbourne), 9 June 1976, among other men (Nicholson, Tandberg, Spooner and Tanner) as 'Australia's finest gallery of cartoonists''.
  • Powerhouse Museum, 'Medibank poster', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW. http://from.ph/319724

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists

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Related collections
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Trust of Australia (NSW), Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 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)
  • State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)
  • Centenary of Federation Collection (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Trust of Australia (NSW), Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 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)
  • State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)