cartoonist, contributed to
The Comic Australian, e.g. “Melbourne Topics” 14 October 1911. The Melbourne Savage Club lent a drawing by D. Connelly to the National Art Gallery of New South Wales’s 1918 loan exhibition (cat.556). He took over at the
Bulletin when Low left in 1919; Rolfe finds him something of a copyist of Low (p.269). In fact, he became far more Art Deco than his predecessor, e.g.
The Privations of a Prince. ('The sufferer: “Couldn’t somebody at any rate call the dog away? I’m getting damp socks”’- everyone slobbering over languid visiting prince – 1920 (ill. Rolfe, 259);
Eggs a-cook! 20 November 1919, 13; illustration to poem 'Should women smoke?’ 11 December 1920, 16;
Government by Machinery 11 November 1920, 10; Tired. GRANDMAMMA: “Now I’ll read you some more about the dear Prince of Wales.”/
HER DARLING: “Oh, give us a rest, Gran!” 25 March 1920 (cover).
National Library of Australia has original caricatures of federal politicians; also neg. 'A white elephant has its uses’, Bulletin 15 December 1921, 10. Art Gallery of Western Australia has an undated original caricature of Senator Bakhap from the Bulletin.
This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
