Stan Cross b. 3 December 1888

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Significant mid 20th century newspaper comic strip artist. Created 'Wally and the Major', 'The Potts' and 'For gorsake, stop laughing: this is serious!'.
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Citations

  • Lindesay, Vane (1994), 'Drawing from Life: a history of the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club’, Sydney, New South Wales : State Library of New South Wales Press, (Material largely from Cross).

  • Lindesay, Vane, '[Material collected for 'Drawing from Life’]’, Sydney, New South Wales : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (ML PxA 641), Includes Cross’s letter to Blaikie re being a cartoonist on Smith’s (much of which is published in his book).

  • (25 November 1933), 'Mr and Mrs Pott-and Whalesteeth’, Smith’s Weekly supplement, Article about Stan Cross with illustrations by him, cited Caban, p41.

See also

  • 'A different self-portrait (Cross collection) was in the Bunker Gallery exhibition 1998-99.'.
  • 'A self portrait in Smith's 25 April 1924, p.14 is captioned 'MAN: "You're not cross are you?"/ CROSS: "Har-har very good."/ People who get themselves disliked-the semi-idiot who jokes about your name'.'.
  • 'One of Cross and other male artists helping Joan Morrison out of an Easter Egg with Horseman behind, drawn by Frank Dunne, Smith's, 20 April 1935, p.20.'.
  • 'A less good naturalistic self-portrait (with another joke biography by Kenneth Slessor), captioned 'Cross, Stan, "Daddy," as the younger and more innocent artists call him', Smith's, 15 April 1933, p.3.'.
  • 'In line-up of portraits by Frank Dunne captioned 'Seeing's Believing-"Smith's" Artists On Parade' 30 July 1932, p.7, with description: 'STAN CROSS is a he-man with gold fillings. He is the only artist in Australia properly acquainted with the Douglas Credit.'.
  • 'Self-portrait with Wally and the Major on his knees as ventriloquist dolls (ill. Lindesay 1994 on contents page, and in Ryan).'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists

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Related stub people
  • Blaikie, George (associate of)
  • McKay, Claude (associate of)
  • Virgil (associate of)
  • Cross, Sue (parent of)
  • Marien, Frank (associate of)
  • Cross, Jessie (spouse of)
Related stub person groups
  • Society of Australian Black and White Artists (associate of)
  • Australian Black and White Artists' Club (associate of)
  • Sketch club (associate of)
Related people
  • Hartt, Cecil Lawrence (associate of)
  • Jolliffe, Eric Ernest (associate of)
  • Friend, Donald (associate of)
  • Russell, Jim (associate of)
  • Lyon, Carl Raymond (associate of)
  • Finey, George (associate of)
Related works
  • ['Bill'] (creator of)
  • [Potts' family Season's Greetings] (creator of)
  • ['Pudden' strips] (creator of)
Related collections
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld. (collected in)
  • State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld. (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • ABWAC's Stanley Award statuettes since 1985 dedicated to Stan Cross (received)
Related events
  • "Golden Years of Cartooning" 1920 to 1940: Featuring the works of Stan Cross & more than twenty cartoonists of the same era (exhibited at)
  • [Exhibition with George Finey] (exhibited at)