Hugh Raymond McCrae b. 4 October 1876

Also known as Hugh McCrae, Splash
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Significant early 20th century Melbourne and Sydney poet, author, cartoonist, illustrator and editor, McCrae was a close friend of Norman Lindsay, with whom he collaborated on a number of projects.
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Citations

  • (1938), 'The Mimshi Maiden’, Angus & Robertson, Sydney NSW, contributed illustrations and cover design.

  • 'NSW Death Records 2241/1958’.

  • (Information sourced from Janda Gooding) Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, June, (1997), 'AGWA cartoon printout’.

  • McCulloch, Alan and McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'Encyclopedia of Australian art’, 3rd revised edition, Allen & Unwin , St Leonards, NSW.

  • Adams, A. H. (1910), 'Three Australasian Poets – Bernard O’Dowd, Hugh McCrae and Jessie Mackay’, Sydney, NSW: Lone Hand 6, March, pp 572-77.

  • Bayldon, A. A. D. (1907), 'Hugh McCrae, poet’, Sydney, NSW: Lone Hand 2, December, p 229.

  • de Berg, Hazel, 'Lady Huntley Cowper McCrae on her father’, Oral History Tapes, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • Cowper, Norman and Rutledge, Martha (1986), 'McCrae, Hugh Raymond (1876 – 1958)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, pp 240-242, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1970), 'The Letters of Hugh McCrae’, FitzGerald, Robert D., ed., Angus & Robertson, Sydney, NSW.

  • Johnson, Joseph (1994), 'Laughter and the Love of Friends – A Centenary History of the Melbourne Savage Club 1894-1994 and A History of the Yorick Club 1868-1966’, Melbourne Savage Club, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Kirkpatrick, Peter (1992), 'The sea coast of Bohemia – literary life in Sydney’s roaring twenties’, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld (distributed by International Specialized Book Services, Portland, Or, USA).

  • Lindesay, Vane (1994), 'Drawing from life – a history of the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club’, State Library of New South Wales Press, Sydney, NSW.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1983), 'The way we were – Australian popular magazines 1856 to 1969’, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1979), 'The inked in image – a social and historical survey of Australian comic art’, Hutchinson of Australia (new edition), Richmond, Vic.

  • Lindsay, Norman (1965), 'Bohemians of the Bulletin’, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, NSW.

  • McCrae, Hugh (1948), 'Story Book Only’, (prose vignettes – original illustrations, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

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

  • Rafty, Tony (with Mack, Brodie) (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning’, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, NSW (catalogue).

  • Taylor, George (1902), 'The Spirit of Caricature in the Commonwealth – with incidental remarks on Australian “Black and White”’, Commonwealth Annual 2, pp.31-42.

  • McCrae, Hugh, 'Letters’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney ML Mss 6046, Sydney, NSW.

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

  • Sydney, NSW: Bulletin.

  • Sydney, NSW: Lone Hand.

  • Melbourne, Vic.: Arena.

  • Melbourne Punch.

  • New York: Puck.

  • (1922), Home, 12-01.

  • New Triad.

See also

  • 'photograph in Taylor, p.40'.
  • 'Will Dyson, pen and ink caricature of Hugh McCrae c 1925, NLA'.
  • 'W. Andersen [sic], Portrait of Hugh McCrae, in 'How a portrait is drawn', a series of drawings in Lone Hand 7 (May 1910), pp. 9-14'.
  • 'Comic self-portrait with devil's tail in form of cross in FitzGerald; David Low, Caricature, Lone Hand 1 June 1914, 30'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists

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