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Vivian, Ron, b. 1914
Ron Vivian was a mid 20th century Sydney cartoonist who is credited with keeping "Ginger Meggs" in print after the sudden death of Jim Bancks. ...
Voke, May Stanford, b. 1912
A painter, wood-engraver and art teacher, Voke was to become South Australia's first woman wood engraver. Voke designed costumes and sets for the local Adelaide ...
W., W. R.
A mid 20th century commercial artist who created the cover for John Carishon's "A Tangled Skein of Smouldering Hatreds and Ambitions and Illicit Love".
Wager, Rhoda, b. 1875
jeweller, operated a successful jewellery business in Sydney from 1916 until her retirement in 1946.
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Wakelin, Roland, b. 1887
Modernist painter, Roland Wakelin, was born in New Zealand in 1887. He moved to Sydney, Australia in 1912 where he studied under Antonio Dattilo Rubbo ...
Walker, Margaret Ellen, b. 1904
New Zealand-born Margaret Walker was a painter and art teacher who studied under greats like Grace Crowley. At one stage, Walker taught children's creative art ...
Walker, Mary Augusta, b. 1856
As a portrait painter, Walker trained in Europe at institutions such as the Slade School in London and Colarossi's in Paris. She received commissions from ...
Walker, Ralph Trafford, b. 1912
Sculptor and printmaker, designed 16 of the 18 relief panels for one of the main Mitchell Library bronze doors, appointed an official war artist with ...
Wall, Dorothy, b. 1894
Wall was a mid 20th century Sydney and New Zealand illustrator and author whose published work, while considerable, does not accurately reflect just how much ...
Wall, Edith, b. 1904
Mid 20th century New Zealand-born, Sydney and Melbourne-based painter, printmaker, cartoonist and art teacher.
Wallace, George, b. 1895
Mid 20th century Sydney newspaper cartoonist. Possibly the popular Sydney Vaudeville performer of the same time.
Wallace-Crabbe, Kenneth Eyre Inverell, b. 1900
Mid 20th century Melbourne painter, printmaker, journalist and publisher.
Wallam, Vera, b. 1934
embroiderer. Along with fellow students, designed and worked tapestries for cushion and chair covers 'in startling colours'. Many given to the Red Cross during WWII.
Waller, Christian, b. 1894
20th century painter, illustrator and stained-glass designer and maker. Early fantasy and mystic themes followed by Art Deco style.
Waller, Mervyn Napier, b. 1893
World War I veteran printmaker, painter, stained glass artist, mosaic artist and muralist. whose work epitomised Art Deco in Australia. Husband of Christian Waller.
Wallis, Clive, b. 1909
Etcher, produced prints in the 1930s and '40s solely for private circulation. Most were erotic and either German expressionist or American 'Ash Can' in style.
Wann, Harry, b. 1897
Early 20th century caricaturist. Harry worked for The Sun Newspaper as an illustrator until 1952. Contributed to the Reveille front cover page issue December 1934 ...
Ward, J. E., b. 1866
Late colonial period cartoonist and illustrator. Painter of Birds of Paradise and native life in Papua.
Warren, Guy, b. 1921
Warren is a painter who began his career at the Bulletin, later studying privately with J.S. Watkins and studied art in Australia and England. Returning ...
Warren, Helena, b. 1871
Self-taught photographer who became both the local press correspondent and a producer of humorous trompe l'oeil postcard images.