Francis J. Broadhurst

Also known as Francis Broadhurst, Frank Broadhurst, F. Broadhurst
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Designer ,
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mid 20th century Melbourne trained and Sydney based caricaturist, illustrator, painter and designer.
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caricaturist, illustrator and designer, trained for five years at Melbourne’s National Gallery School under Napier Waller . He was theatrical caricaturist for Table Talk (Melbourne) then worked for Australian Consolidated Press as a caricaturist on the Sydney Daily Telegraph and an illustrator on the Australian Women’s Weekly . Minor illustrations also appeared in Ure Smith and Gwen Morton Spencer’s Australia Week-end Book no.2 (1943), 137 (man and tree). He is probably best known for his fine art illustrations to Rabelais (12 of the original pen drawings are in the AGNSW, purchased 1949; print of Rabelais portrait after Desroches, ML P2 273) and The Decameron . Later he turned to book design, e.g. Patricia Rolfe’s The Journalistic Javelin 1979 (according to dust jacket).

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

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Related collections
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)