Norman Alfred William Lindsay, 1879-1969
Woman Enchanting Man (circa 1932)
Watercolour on paper
38.5 x 32.5 cm
Private collection
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor,
writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeller, and an accomplished amateur
boxer.
In 1895,
Lindsay moved to Melbourne to work on a local magazine with his older brother
Lionel. In 1901, he and Lionel, his older brother, joined the staff of the
Sydney Bulletin, a weekly newspaper, magazine and review. His association there
would last fifty years.
Lindsay
travelled to Europe in 1909. In Naples he began 100 pen-and-ink illustrations
for Petronius' Satyricon. Visits to the then South Kensington Museum where he
made sketches of model ships in the Museum's collection stimulated a lifelong
interest in ship models. The Lindsays returned to Australia in 1911.
Lindsay
wrote the children's classic The Magic Pudding which was published in 1918.
Many of his novels have a frankness and vitality that matches his art. In 1938,
Lindsay published Age of Consent.
Cartoons,
by Lindsay, were used both for recruitment and to promote conscription during
World War I.
Lindsay
also worked as an editorial cartoonist, notable for often illustrating the
racist and right-wing political leanings that dominated The Bulletin at that
time.
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