Dennis Connelly

Also known as D. Connelly
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Early 20th century Bulletin cartoonist.
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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 .

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007

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Related stub person groups
  • Melbourne Savage Club (associate of)
Related people
  • Low, David Alexander Cecil (associate of)
Related collections
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Savage Club, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW [?] (collected in)