Mervyn Officer b. 4 December 1906

Also known as Vyvyan Officer
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mervyn Officer is described as a commercial artist in an 1941 obituary for his father, the Secretary of the Victorian Graziers Association.
Tags: illustrator, painter
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I don’t have any detailed biographical material but I do have three small paintings that I think he painted. My father was a psychiatrist in Melbourne in the thirties, forties and early fifties. He specialised in child psychiatry. I know that he knew Mervyn and that Mervyn gave him some works. Dad might well have known him from the left wing art circles that he was part of. However, I think that Mervyn might well have been a patient at Mont Park mental hospital at some stage. When I was a child, we lived at Mont Park.

My three paintings are filed away in my flat file but I have scans of them.

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  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
  • Artist (Painter)
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  • illustrator
  • painter
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