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Lindsay, Sir Lionel (Australian)
1874 - 1961
Description: "Santa Cruz, Toledo, 1946" etching,
pencil signed, inscribed "200",
signed in the plate lower right,
from the
edition of 200 published by the
Society of
Print Connoisseurs, Alexandria,
Virgina.
10" x 7" plate, 12.75"
x 9.25",
archival mounting. Printed in
a dark brown/black
ink on a cream wove paper, with
the embossed
stamp of the Society of Print
Connoisseurs
lower left margin.
Condition: Excellent.
Biography: Born in Creswick Victoria on 17 October
1874 Sir Lionel Arthur Lindsay
was the eldest
of three talented sons from the
nine child
Lindsay families. His two other
brothers
shared similar fame and fortune
with Norman
producing many controversial
works both in
art and writing for the 1930's
period, although
his most memorable effort given
in the form
of a children's book "The
Magic Pudding".
Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay, the
youngest of
the three brothers talents lie
in the area
of landscape paintings, with
his other forte
being his studies of horses.
His role as
director and advisor to the National
Gallery
of Victoria and his prominent
role of establishing
the National Trust of Australia
could only
be surpassed by his wife, Joan,
who also
received much notoriety in the
early 60's
for writing the famous book "Picnic
at Hanging Rock".
Sir Lionel Arthur Lindsay began
his artistic
career in his teens studying
landscape paintings
and drawings while earning his
living at
the Melbourne Observatory. Freelancing
as
an artist / journalist, he had
several drawings
published in the Sydney Bulletin
and was
a cartoonist for the Sydney evening
news
from 1903 to 1926.
He taught himself etching and
engraving,
two art forms to which he made
his forte,
becoming famous for his woodcuts
of Australian
animals and birds.
An inveterate traveller throughout
the early
and mid 1900's, he visited Europe
several
times, especially Spain, and
also India and
North Africa. The paintings,
watercolours
and etchings resulting from those
journeys
were exhibited successfully at
home and abroad
.his works can be found in most
Australian
galleries and as far abroad as
the British
museum, the New York library
and the Modern
Gallery in Madrid.
$495.00
inclusive of S/H/I*
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