cartoonist, painter and teacher, was born in Letchworth, England on 2 August 1910. He came to Australia in 1937. Cartoons signed 'Gould’ appeared in Australia: National Journal and in Australia Week-end Book 1 (1942), e.g. “What be a’goin’ on around 'ere?” (German parachutist about to land on head of farmer while rest of farm people and animals flee), and others in vol.2 (1943). In 1944 he was appointed the Sydney Morning Herald 's first art director, the same year as Eyre Jr did the first local cartoon on the leader page. Gould drew the SMH 's first comic strip, an untitled gag sequence first published in December 1944. (It was followed by an English strip called 'Mr and Mrs’ and the US 'Penny’ by Haenigsen in January 1945.) Gould returned to England in 1946-51 and was succeeded as art director on the SMH by William (Nick) Nicholas (1946-50), et al (listed Souter, 630).
John Coburn’s lithograph Garden was printed by Strom Gould at Sydney c.1960 (NGA) when both were teaching at ESTC. His abstract painting, Sundrenched Bush 1966 (Manly AG), is reproduced in Therese Kenyon (ed.), The Studio Tradition: National Art School 1883-2001 (Manly AG catalogue, 2001, 32), though Gould is neither mentioned in the text nor named in the (incomplete) list of staff and students in the catalogue.
Strom Gould died at Port Douglas, Queensland, on 31 July 1992.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
