J. A. Pearce

Also known as Jim Pearce
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Early 20th century Bulletin cartoonist, caricaturist and illustrator, Pearce's work appeared in publications such as the Bulletin, Lone Hand and the Adelaide News.
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cartoonist, caricaturist and illustrator, contributed to the illustrated Adelaide satirical journal Gadfly (1906-9), e.g. Righteous Scorn 'THE DUSKY BELLE: “What am that?”/ KING BILLY: “That thing! Him son of those plurry fellers what stole our country.”’ (Aboriginal couple looking at a white dandy) 26 August 1908, 7. For a time he was staff artist on the Adelaide News (Moore, p 122). His drawing Call to Arms appeared in Lone Hand 12 (November 1912), 89. The Bulletin newspapers lent a caricature by J.A. Pearce to the 1918 Loan exhibition of Australian art at the then National Art Gallery of New South Wales (cat.417) and 'Pearce’ is included in a c.1930s list of Bulletin Artists (Mitchell Library [ML]). Two original cartoons of 1915 and 43 caricatures of 1902-37 (and undated) are in the ML Bulletin collection. His original drawing with odd cubist figures of sailors, The Naval Engagement 1915, was included in the Australians in Black & White (the most public art) exhibition at the State Library of New South Wales in 1999.

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

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  • illustrator (ANZSIC code: 6924)
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