Illustrator and cartoonist, is included in a c.1930s list of
Bulletin Artists (ML Px*D557 pt 5, '47’) and he also worked for
Smith’s Weekly. The wife of a former reporter at
Smith’s donated 21 (or 24) originals to ML (
PXD 840) in 1999, along with the final issue (28 October 1950) signed by all the cartoonists. Included is Quinlan’s 'Boss: business is bad but I suppose a man can’t have everything’, signed 'Quinlan '34’. He was also a
Women’s Weekly illustrator (Craig Judd). He worked as a newspaper cartoonist on the
Sun and
Sun-Herald. The
AGWA was given 4 original Quinlan drawings, including “The Nagger”, from the
Bulletin, and three illustrations from the
Sun-Herald.
'We Dips Our Lid’, a 1930 cartoon from the Sydney City Girls’ Amateur Sports Association souvenir pamphlet,
'Johnnie’, You’re a Bird!’ (ML), shows a giant Amy Johnson bestriding England and Australia dressed in aviation costume and being bowed to by 'The Little Boy at Manly’ (standing on a map of Australia); a smiling John Bull on a map of Great Britain is to the immediate (sic) left and an ethereal 'Victory’ looms with a giant wreath above and behind Jonson. The caption reads 'Young Australia is at your feet. By Hal Quinlan of “The Sun”’, and Quinlan’s photo is inserted in the top right hand corner. The image was used as the cover of
Australian Historical Studies vol. 23, no.90 (April 1998) and is mentioned in an article by Julian Thomas, 'Amy Johnson’s Triumph, Australia, 1930’ (p.74). Quinlan’s photolithographic propaganda poster for
WWII,
Don’t do it George…, showing a soldier inscribing his name and company on a public lavatory wall (
AWM.), was included in Global Art Link’s
Bluey and Curley 2000 exhibition.
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
