Will Dyson b. 3 September 1880

Also known as William Henry Dyson, Bill Dyson, Asa Dane, Emu
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Important early 20th century political, Dyson was appointed an official war cartoonist in 1916. Working extensively both in Australia and overseas, Dyson was married to fellow artist Ruby Lindsay of the well-known artistic Lindsay family.
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Dr. Freud introduces a patient to her subconscious
 
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Meeting of the Society for the Suppression of Bad Language in the Army
 
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At The - Theatre
 
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The Poet
 
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'Fat Man's Devotions'

406 × 338mm, pen and black ink over graphite on tan wove paper. Gift of Mr A de Sauty, acc. no. 1927.821

 
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(600-700 original Daily Herald cartoons by Dyson)

(Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, University of Kent at Canterbury UK)

 
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(3 caricatures from Bulletin, including 'Big John Forrest of WA')
 
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(Caricature of Tom Roberts)
 
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Nobody gives us credit for the masterpieces we haven't written yet

Lithograph

 
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Industrial War
 
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International Misunderstanding
 
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Soon my dear everybody will have a possum skin - except the possum
 
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(Sophisticates)
 
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(Caricature of King O'Malley)
 
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Once WE were the most loathsome things that flew
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Joan Kerr observed that the 1935 attribution “seems extraordinarily anachronistic. (Was it being recycled?)”. On verso is partial drawing – quite camp – of what appears to be a koala dressed as a Hollywood cowboy, complete with guns, hat and chaps – possibly related to the “Hollywood” series of drypoints of the early 1930s, which suggests the mid 1930s date of this particular cartoon is correct, although the theme suggests a much earlier gag revisited.

 
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Our Moderns: White Trash
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Our Moderns
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A series of satirical drypoints

 
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"Impure Literature!"
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In Keeping it Dark or The Censor’s Handbook by Bernard Causton and G. Gordon Young, London (NLA)

 
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Man
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Our Immortals: Thomas Hardy in the fields of Aspodel finds evidence of canker
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Etching, possible series title: Literary Reflections.

 
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Our Immortals: Count Leo Tolstoy suspecting sensuality in the heavenly choir
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Etching, possible series title: Literary Reflections.

 
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