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.

Citations

  • Bedford, Randolph (ed.) (c.1900), 'Lecture on Art (the Clarion)’.

  • Dyson, Edward (illustrated by Will Dyson) (1907), 'Fact’ry 'Ands’.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1994), 'Drawing From Life’.

  • Writer, Larry, Norman, Pete and Sheather, Michael (9 December 1996), 'The Cartoon Connection’, Who, pp 81-85, 'A cache of sketches by renowned Australian satirist Will Dyson is found in a London attic’ by John Jensen, Dyson’s biographer.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, Angus and Robertson, 2 volumes (facsimile reprint, 1980), Sydney, NSW.

  • Tanner, Les (1963), 'Black and White Art in Australia’, Sydney, NSW : Current Affairs Bulletin, vol 33, no. 3, 12-23, pp 33-47.

  • Tanner, Les (1966), '“What’s happened to Black and White?: “for gorsake stop laughing, this is serious!”’, F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne, Vic. : 'The Bulletin Book: A Selection from the 1960’s, pp 1-4.

  • Lawson, Sylvia (1987), 'The Archibald Paradox’, Rignwood, Vic.

  • Dyson, Will (intro. by H.G. Wells) (1915), 'Kultur Cartoons’, Stanley Paul, London, England, UK.

  • Dyson, Will (1916), 'War Cartoons’, London, England, UK.

  • McMullan, Ross (2006), 'Will Dyson: Australia’s Radical Genius’, Scribe, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Dyson, Will (intro. by G.K. Chesterton) (1918), 'Australia at War: A winter record on the Somme and at Ypres during the campaigns of 1916 and 1917’, Cecil Palmer & Hayward, London, England.

  • (1981), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, [Nairn, B. and Serle, G. (eds.)], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Dow, David M. (1947), 'Melbourne Savages: A History of the First Fifty Years of the Melbourne Savage Club’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Dyson, Will (1908), 'Bacchus Time: the 20th century’, Sydney, NSW : Lone Hand, vol 2, January, pp 280-81.

  • Dyson, Will (1912), 'G.W. Lambert: a caricature’, Sydney, NSW : Lone Hand, vol 11, June, p 138.

  • Dyson, Will (1908), 'Poet’, Sydney, NSW : Lone Hand, volume 3, June, p 142.

  • F., F. (1908), 'Our rulers: Pictures by Will Dyson with writing accompaniment by F.F.’, Sydney, NSW : Lone Hand, volume 3, September, pp 495-506, and 620-628.

  • Hall, Doug (1980), 'Will Dyson: Cartoons, caricatures and prints 1880-1938’, Bendigo, Victoria: Bendigo Art Gallery & Australian Gallery Directors Council.

  • Jensen, John (1975), '“Curious! I seem to hear a child weeping!” Will Dyson (1880-1938)’, In 'Politics in cartoon and caricature’, special issue of 20th Century Studies 13/14, December, [Bann, S. and Thomas, G.M. (eds.)], pp. 36-55.

  • Jensen, John (1989), 'Australasian Cartoonists in Britain 1889-1988’, London, England, UK.

  • Jensen, John (1996), 'A Sort of Bird of Freedom”: Will Dyson cartoons, caricatures, drawings and satirical prints – many from the recently discovered Chanteau Collection’, Australian High Commission, The Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, the University of Kent at Canterbury, and Kent County Council, UK.

  • Kerr, Joan (1999), 'Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White’, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1962), 'Will Dyson’, Melbourne, Vic. : Overland 24, pp. 29-33.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1979), 'Will Dyson’, Melbourne, Vic. : Overland, pp. 20-22.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1981), 'Dyson Commemorative Centenary issue of Overland’, Melbourne, Vic., December.

  • Dyson, Will (1919), 'Poems in Memory of a Wife’, London, England, UK.

  • Marriott, Charles (1919), 'Will Dyson’s war drawings’, Sydney, NSW : Art in Australia (series 1) number 6, Art in Australia Ltd., npp.

  • Moore, William (2 December 1907), 'Will Dyson’, Native Companion, npp.

  • O’Reilly, David (2 July 1996), 'Acid inkwell archaeology’, Sydney, NSW : Bulletin, pp 22-23.

  • Palmer, Vance (1949), 'Will Dyson’, Melbourne, Vic. : Meanjin 39, vol.8 no.4, (December?) pp 213-23.

  • Rafty, Tony with Brodie Mack (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning’, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, NSW, September.

  • Taylor, George (1902), 'The Spirit of Caricature in the Commonwealth With incidental remarks on Australian “Black and White”’, Commonwealth Annual 2 (1902-3), pp 31-42.

  • Gooding, Janda (1997), 'Art Gallery of Western Australia cartoon list’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, June.

  • (1928), Sydney, NSW: Art in Australia, Art in Australia Ltd, December, npp.

  • (1988), 'City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery print-out’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic.

  • Anderson, M., et al. (1998), 'When Australia Was A Woman’, WAM, cat. 62.

  • Bills, Mark (2006), 'The Art of Satire’, Museum of London, England, UK.

  • Greenwall, Ryno; Carruthers, Jane (intro.) (1992), 'Artists & illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War’, Vlaeberg, South Africa: Fernwood Press; Johannesburg, South Africa: Thorold’s Africana Books [distributor].

  • Kerr, Joan, 'Joan Kerr Archive’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

See also

  • ''His Outcast Friend', 1925, Melbourne Punch'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists