Tony Rafty b. 1915

Also known as Anthony Raftopoulos
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and cartoon historian. Rafty joined the Sun Associated Newspapers group in 1940 but enlisted in the AIF in 1941.
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Citations

  • (18 August 1928), 'Sun’.

  • 'Referee’.

  • Simmons, Don (July 2000), 'Stuff cartoons are made of’, Australian Senior, .

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

  • Stone, Walter (1973), ’50 Years of the Newspaper Cartoon in Australia’, Adelaide, SA : The News, in association with the Art Gallery of South Australia.

  • (1988), 'Australian Black-and-White Artists Club Book of Originals’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (28 May 1982), 'Cartoonist Tony Rafty of Little Bay…’, Sydney Morning Herald, Eastern Herald.

  • Rafty, Tony; and Smith, Terry (1983), 'Tony Rafty’s Golfing greats’, Adelaide, SA : Rigby.

See also

  • 'PORTRAIT: 1997 visiting card in file with self caricature (playing golf inside tee and yelling 'Fore', presumably a reference to his first job, his lifetime enthusiasm for the game, his strip "Mugs the Golfer" and his many caricatures of golfers); photograph at the 1938 Artists' Ball, Pix 23 April 1938, 35.'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists

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Related collections
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)