Oswald Pryor b. 15 February 1881

Also known as Cipher
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mid 20th century Moonta and Adelaide cartoonist. Pryor's last cartoon was published when he was 85.
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Name
Oswald Pryor
Also known as Cipher
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Other Occupation
  • Author (ANZSIC code: 9002)
Birth date
15 February 1881
Birth place
Moonta Mines, South Australia
Death date
13 June 1971
Death place
Queanbeyan, New South Wales
Active Period
  • c.1902 - c.1966
Residence
  • c.1924 - c.1931 Stanley Street, Leabrook, Adelaide, South Australia
  • c.1962 - c.1971 Canberra, ACT
  • c.1919 - c.1962 Adelaide, South Australia
  • c.1881 - c.1919 Moonta, South Australia
Training
  • 1902 - 1903 SA School of Design, Painting and Technical Art, Adelaide, SA
Cultural Heritage
  • Cornish
  • English
  • Australian
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

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References [<ExternalResource: (18 December 1907), 'As they see themselves [our artists]', Adelaide, SA : Gadfly, p 14, Mini-biography and self-portrait of 'Cipher' who 'has not had the opportunities of seeing the work and mixing with other artists', so was evidently still living at Moonta.>, <ExternalResource: Pryor, Oswald (1962), 'Australia's Little Cornwall', Adelaide, SA, Third prize winner in Advertiser lit. comp. 1962.>, <ExternalResource: Pryor, Oswald (1966), 'Cousin Jacks and Jennys'.>, <ExternalResource: Harris, Joe (1970), 'The bitter fight : a pictorial history of the Australian labor movement', St. Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press, (Possibly not totally accurate but confident about "Cipher" attribution).>, <ExternalResource: Faull, Jim (1988), 'Pryor, Oswald (1881 - 1971)', Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, [Serle, G. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press, p. 305.>, <ExternalResource: Harris, Joe (1970), 'The bitter fight : a pictorial history of the Australian labor movement', St. Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press, (Possibly not totally accurate but confident about "Cipher" attribution).>, <ExternalResource: Lindesay, Vane (1979), 'The inked-in image : a social and historical survey of Australian comic art', Richmond, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (new edition) ("Cipher" ill. p.37).>, <ExternalResource: Lindesay, Vane (1983), 'The way we were : Australian popular magazines 18 56 to 19 69', Melbourne, Vic : Oxford University Press.>, <ExternalResource: McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian art', Melbourne, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (2nd revised edition).>, <ExternalResource: Moore, William (1934), 'Story of Australian Art', Sydney, NSW : Angus & Robertson (facsimile 1980), pp 119-20 (vol. ii).>, <ExternalResource: Pryor, Oswald (1950), 'Cornish Pasty : a selection of the cartoons', Adelaide, SA : Rigby (reprint 1961) : anthology of 60 cartoons.>, <ExternalResource: Rafty, Tony; with Mack, Brodie (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning', Sydney, NSW : Blaxland Gallery.>, <ExternalResource: (2002), 'Playing Politics : The Cartoons of Pickering & Pryor', Canberra, ACT : Old Parliament House, p.7.>, <ExternalResource: Rolfe, Patricia (1979), 'The journalistic javelin : an illustrated history of the Bulletin', Sydney, NSW : Wildcat Press ; Gladesville, NSW : distributed by Golden Press.>, <ExternalResource: Pryor, Oswald (1972), 'Hancock, Henry Richard (1836 - 1919)', Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press, pp 333-334.>] [<ExternalResource: (18 December 1907), 'As they see themselves [our artists]', Adelaide, SA : Gadfly, p 14, Mini-biography and self-portrait of 'Cipher' who 'has not had the opportunities of seeing the work and mixing with other artists', so was evidently still living at Moonta.>, <ExternalResource: Pryor, Oswald (1962), 'Australia's Little Cornwall', Adelaide, SA, Third prize winner in Advertiser lit. comp. 1962.>, <ExternalResource: Pryor, Oswald (1966), 'Cousin Jacks and Jennys'.>, <ExternalResource: Harris, Joe (1970), 'The bitter fight : a pictorial history of the Australian labor movement', St. Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press, (Possibly not totally accurate but confident about "Cipher" attribution).>]