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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Citations

  • (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.

  • Pryor, Oswald (1962), 'Australia’s Little Cornwall’, Adelaide, SA, Third prize winner in Advertiser lit. comp. 1962.

  • Pryor, Oswald (1966), 'Cousin Jacks and Jennys’.

  • 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).

See also

  • ''Cypher' self-portrait as a young, short, plump cherub in modern dress, Gadfly 18 December 1907, 14.'.

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