Dorothy Fry b. 1891

  • Designer (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Early 20th century Sydney illustrator and cartoonist, Fry worked for a time as a commercial artist, drawing newspaper advertisements as well as cartoons and illustrations for the Bulletin, Sydney Mail and Lone Hand.
Tags: Commercial artist
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Name
Dorothy Fry
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Designer (Industrial / Product Designer)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Other Occupation
  • commercial artist
  • typist/stenographer
Tags:
Commercial artist
Birth date
1891
Birth place
Petersham, Sydney, NSW
Birth note
other sources say 1898 [sic: these are dates of earliest material in ML Dorothy Fry papers]
Death date
1965
Death place
St Leonards, Sydney, NSW
Death note
other sources say 1953 [sic: these are dates of latest material in ML Dorothy Fry papers]
Active Period
  • 1898 - 1953
Residence
  • 1923 - 1965 Sydney, NSW
  • 1919 - 1923 Jakarta, Indonesia, Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia)
  • c.1919 Lindfield, NSW
Training
  • c.1910 - c.1912 Sydney, NSW, Sydney, NSW?
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists
Website

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Roles
  • Designer (Industrial / Product Designer)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Other occupations
  • commercial artist
  • typist/stenographer
  • commercial artist
  • typist/stenographer
Tags
  • Commercial artist
Related works
  • The Economist (creator of)
  • Circumstantial Evidence (creator of)
  • Women's Clothes Again (creator of)
  • One point in their favour (creator of)
  • Young Australia (creator of)
  • The Economist (creator of)
  • Circumstantial Evidence (creator of)
  • Women's Clothes Again (creator of)
  • One point in their favour (creator of)
  • Young Australia (creator of)
Related collections
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney (collected in)
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