Sir David Alexander Cecil Low b. 7 April 1891

Also known as David Low
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Significant mid 20th century New Zealand born cartoonist and caricaturist who worked in Australia during the 1910s before embarking on a career as an influential political cartoonist in London. Creator of the character Colonel Blimp.
You are viewing the version of bio from July 17, 2011, 4:23 p.m. (moderator approved).
Revert to this revision Go to current record

Citations

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

See also

  • 'In his other cartoons, e.g. Colonel Blimp explaining to a puzzled Low, 'Hitler only needs arms so that he can declare peace on the rest of the world'', He also included easily identifiable self-portraits (black eyebrows, broad-brimmed black hat and small goatee beard grown after a visit to Russia in 1932).
  • 'Self-portrait among page of his caricatures of other artists, Lone Hand 2 March 1914, 249'.
  • 'photographs of Low at work in Pix 23 December 1939, 21-22'.
  • 'possible self portrait One Recruit and Another '... the modest person in the newspaper is the "Bulletin" artist - rejected on account of epizootic (sp?)' Bulletin 8 August 1915, 13'.
  • 'possible self portrait, The Tale of a Shirt, Bulletin 23 December 1915, 13'.
  • 'caricature self-portrait? (ill. King, 88)'.
  • 'Self-portrait Off to London, published Bulletin August(?) 1919 (frontispiece, Seymour-Ure)'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists

Difference between this version and previous

Field Changes
Biography
Initial contributors
  • Kerr, Joan Note:
  • Kerr, Joan