Joyce Roseby b. 1917

Also known as Joyce May Roseby, Joyce Turner, Roseby
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mid 20th century illustrator and commercial artist.
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commercial artist, illustrated stories in Sydney Ure Smith and Gwen Morton’s Australia: National Journal and Australia Week-end Book vol.3 (1944), e.g. female dragging male away from femme fatale for John Cleary’s 'Surrealism and Butch’, p.22; a pair of hands holding women and children for D’Arcy Niland’s 'A Little Hour or Two’, p.70; a conspiratorial digger and an Arab for Allen Leslie’s 'Cure by Ordeal’, p.107; Italian greengrocer for Grace Villiers’s 'Swearing’, p.121; head in bottle looking at nude woman for Roger Welch’s 'You can’t have nightmares in the daytime’ (short story, p.152); and a line of women for Eve Merritt’s 'Lines on Ladies and Lotteries’ (p.138).

SLNSW holds 127 of Joyce Roseby’s drawings c.1930-40 (watercolour, ink, pencil, pastels), presented 1988. Most are studies of the human figure. Also includes advertising art, posters and cartoons

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

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Related people
  • Smith, Sydney Ure (associate of)
Related collections
  • State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)