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Snell, Edward, b. 1820
A successful surveyor and engineer as well as a painter and a sketcher, whose move to Australia was significant to his artistic output, beginning with ...
Marchant, George Lionel, b. 1882
Son of photographer Edwin Walter Marchant, George Marchant was also a photographer. He had his own studio in Clare and later in Adelaide, before he ...
Abbott, Ernest Edwin, b. 1889
Ernest Edwin Abbott (1889-1973), English-born printmaker, painter and art teacher, based mainly in Melbourne, Victoria.
Bastin, Henri, b. 1896
Bastin emerged in the 1950s as a key figure in Australian primitive/naive art.
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Campbell, Robert Richmond, b. 1902
Painter and gallery administrator. Born in Scotland and resident of New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland. By the 1950s he was regarded as ...
Gurney, Alexander George, b. 1902
Popular and prolific mid 20th century newspaper cartoonist. Worked in Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide and widely published elsewhere. Creator of 'Bluey and Curley'.
Trompf, Percy, b. 1902
Designer of many colour lithographic posters between the 1930s and the 1950s, commissioned by the Australian National Travel Association, Victorian Railways, Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, ...
Aikin, Hamilton, b. 1904
English male photographer, film-maker, editor and Presbyterian priest who went outback for Outreach, a Church journal, documenting indigenous cultures and mission activity.
Atkin, Hamilton, b. 1904
Photographer and Presbyterian clergyman, Atkin was the first Director of the Audio Visual Department of the Church in Victoria before becoming a professional freelance photographer ...
Olday, John, b. 1905
Mid 20th century European political painter and cartoonist who lived in Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne in the 1950s and 1960s.
McClintock, Herbert, b. 1906
Mid 20th century political and surrealist painter, cartoonist, commercial artist and singer.
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Strachan, David, b. 1919
David Strachan, the son of the Lindsay family's doctor, studied in London and Paris before attending the George Bell School in Melbourne. He is most ...
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Moon, Milton, b. 1926
Milton Moon has been a key figure in developing close links between Japanese studio pottery and Australia. In 2012 he wrote: 'I remain concerned, if ...
Sellbach, Udo, b. 1927
Udo Sellbach was a printmaker and a founding member of the Print Council of Australia and the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board.
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Olsen, John, b. 1928
John Olsen's exuberant paintings, which were first exhibited in Sydney in the 1950s, are often celebrations of Sydney, Majorca, marine life, good food and sunshine. ...
Thomas, Daniel, b. 1931
Daniel Thomas is has been a continuing major force in Australian art curatorship since he was first appointed to the Art Gallery of NSW as ...
Atchison, Michael, b. 1933
Late 20th century Adelaide cartoonist and children's book illustrator. Atchinson was a regular contributor to Punch magazine and from 1968 he worked as the daily ...