Frederick William Leist b. 21 August 1873

Also known as Fred Leist
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter)
Early 20th century Sydney and London painter, cartoonist, war artist and teacher. He was an inaugural council member of the Sydney Society of Artists in 1895 and - after the merger (1902-07) - of the Royal Art Society of NSW.
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Citations

  • 'NSW Birth Records : 2393/1873; 64/1869; 819/1871’.

  • Fry, Edith M. (June 1924), 'The Work of Fred Leist’, Sydney, NSW : in Art in Australia (3rd Series, Number 8), .

  • Callaway, Anita (1987), 'Fred Leist’, Sydney, NSW : in Historic Houses Trust of NSW Newsletter 12, p 1.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian art’, Melbourne, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (2nd revised edition).

  • Ryno, Greenwall (1992), 'Artists and Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War’, Vlaeberg, South Africa : Fernwood Press ; Johannesburg, South Africa : Thorold’s Africana Books [distributor], p 162.

  • Houfe, Simon (1981), 'The dictionary of British book illustrators and caricaturists, 1800-1914’, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, UK : Antique Collectors’ Club.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'Story of Australian Art vol. ii’, Sydney, NSW : Angus & Robertson (facsimile 1980).

  • Rutledge, Martha (1986), 'Leist, Frederick William (Fred) (1873 – 1945)’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, pp 70-71.

  • Taylor, George (c.1902), 'The Spirit of Caricature in the Commonwealth : With incidental remarks on Australian “Black and White”’, in Commonwealth Annual 1902-03.

  • The Strand, pp 23, 663.

  • Rolfe, Patricia (1979), 'The journalistic javelin : an illustrated history of the Bulletin’, Sydney, NSW : Wildcat Press ; Gladesville, NSW : distributed by Golden Press.

  • Coleman, Peter; & Tanner, Les (1967), 'Cartoons of Australian history’, Melbourne, Vic : Nelson.

See also

  • 'Will Dyson, Caricature of Leist in 1907 Society of Artists catalogue, 32'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists

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Related collections
  • Sheffield and Bradford Galleries, England, UK (collected in)
  • Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Mornington Peninsula, VIC (collected in)
  • Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery (collected in)
  • Sheffield and Bradford Galleries, England, UK (collected in)
  • Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Mornington Peninsula, VIC (collected in)
  • Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld. (collected in)