| MEMOIRS AND REMINISCENCES |
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note that the Bibliography is by no means complete. As we gather more information and we have the time, this list will be continually updated. A veritable work in progress ...
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| NORMAN LINDSAY |
Bohemians of the Bulletin
1965
Norman Lindsay
Angus & Robertson
Hardcover, dustjacket, black and white
Lively,
humorous, provocative, and illustrated with the author's own pen drawings, Bohemians
of the Bulletin is Norman Lindsay's reminiscences of the major and
minor figures in Australian literature whom he has known personally.
Most of them were grouped around the Bulletin in its great days
under JF Archibald. They include Henry Lawson, Hugh McCrae, AG Stephens, "Banjo" Paterson,
EJ Dyson, Louis Stone of Jonah, Steel Rudd, Tom Collins, Randolph
Bedford, Miles Franklin, and many others.
We knew them as people, says Norman Lindsay in
his foreword; today, as idolatry gathers about them,
they tend to become mythological. So here, before
they become mere shadows or giants, are McCrae granting
the hapless up-country versifier his 'Poet's Licence',
the irrepressible Bedford using a crab to settle a dispute
in a cafe, Roderic Quinn meekly submitting to Lionel Lindsay's
torrent of eloquence about bulls, Victor Daley startling
an irreverent small boy, Henry Lawson greeting aborigines
in George Street ... all remembered with respect for their
talents and amusement at their foibles.
It is a book that anyone can enjoy for its entertainment, and at the same
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Bohemians of the Bulletin
1973
Norman Lindsay
Angus & Robertson, Publishers
A&R Classics Edition
Softcover, black and white
Lively,
humorous, provocative and illustrated with the author's own inimitable drawing, Bohemians of the Bulletin is Norman Lindsay's reminiscences of the major and minor figures in Australian literature whom he knew personally. Most of them were grouped around the Bulletin in its great days under J.F. Archibald. They included Henry Lawson, Hugh McCrae, A.G. Stephens, 'Banjo' Paterson, Steele Rudd, Miles Franklin and many others. Some have become legends, others faded into obscurity. Here, before they became shadows or giants, are McCrae granting the hapless up-country versifier his 'Poet's licence', the irrepressible Bradford settling a cafe dispute by the ingenious use of a crab, Henry Lawson administering criticism of Bert Stevens with the end of his cane and hailing aborigines in George Street ... all remembered with respect for their talents and amusements at their foibles.
Norman Lindsay, artist, cartoonist and author, was born in 1879 and died in 1969. For sixty years he was one of Australia's most controversial characters and acknowledged as oine of its most gifted. His written works include: A Curate in Bohemia, Redheap, The Cousin from Fiji, Halfway to Anywhere, Dust or Polish, The Magic Pudding and Bohemians of the Bulletin. |
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Bohemians at the Bulletin
1977
Norman Lindsay
Angus & Robertson Publishers
Arkon Edition
Softcover, black and white
Previously published as Bohemians of the Bulletin.
Norman Lindsay knew them all ... those amazing literary figures who were directly associated with the Bulletin in its great days under J.F. Archibald. Meet them again through the lively, humorous and provocative skills of Norman Lindsay as he recalls Henryt Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Miles Franklin, Steele Rudd and a dozen more 'notables' from those wild, bohemian days. |
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My Mask
1973
Norman Lindsay
Angus & Robertson (Publishers) Pty Ltd, Sydney
A&R Classics Edition
Softcover, black and white
My Mask is Norman Lindsay's autobiography. An unpretentious, down-to-earth, high-spirited and often amusing book, it covers Lindsay's childhood in Creswick, Victoria; his hilarious student days in Melbourne in the company of the writers and artists celebrated in his novel A Curate in Bohemia; his early love affairs (which began at the age of seven); his Sydney days with the giants of the old Bulletin; London; New York; and back to the beautiful home he and Rose Lindsay made for themselves in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.
Lindsay's spectacle of life is never dull. At times it is very funny. At times, illuminating. My Mask is a delight — unless you happen to be one of those dyed-in-the-womb wowsers against whom this gifted rebel waged a lifelong war.
The Australian News
A fascinatingly convincing picture. Very funny indeed.
London Sunday Telegraph
An hilarious book.
The News, South Australia
Norman Lindsay, artist, cartoonist and author, was born in 1879 and died in 1969. For sixty years he was one of Australia's most controversial characters and acknowledged as one of its most gifted. His written works include A Curate in Bohemia, Redheap, The Cousin from Fiji, Halfway to Anywhere, Dust or Polish, The Magic Pudding and Bohemians of the Bulletin. |
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My Mask
1976
Norman Lindsay
Angus & Robertson Publishers Pty Ltd, Sydney
A&R Classics Edition
Softcover, black and white
My Mask is Norman Lindsay's autobiography. An unpretentious, down-to-earth, high-spirited and often amusing book, it covers Lindsay's childhood in Creswick, Victoria; his hilarious student days in Melbourne in the company of the writers and artists celebrated in his novel A Curate in Bohemia; his early love affairs (which began at the age of seven); his Sydney days with the giants of the old Bulletin; London; New York; and back to the beautiful home he and Rose Lindsay made for themselves in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.
Lindsay's spectacle of life is never dull. At times it is very funny. At times, illuminating. My Mask is a delight — unless you happen to be one of those dyed-in-the-womb wowsers against whom this gifted rebel waged a lifelong war.
The Australian News
A fascinatingly convincing picture. Very funny indeed.
London Sunday Telegraph
An hilarious book.
The News, South Australia
Norman Lindsay, artist, cartoonist and author, was born in 1879 and died in 1969. For sixty years he was one of Australia's most controversial characters and acknowledged as one of its most gifted. His written works include A Curate in Bohemia, Redheap, The Cousin from Fiji, Halfway to Anywhere, Dust or Polish, The Magic Pudding and Bohemians of the Bulletin. |
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Letters of Norman Lindsay
1979
RG Howarth and AW Barker (editors)
Angus & Robertson
Hardcover, slipcase (de luxe, 300), black and white
Norman
Lindsay was a prolific — one could even say compulsive
— letter-writer. He wrote letters regularly from his youth until
shortly before he died at the age of ninety. It would be difficult to estimate
the number of letters he wrote in his lifetime, but they would amount to
thousands.
Letters of Norman Lindsay was published to mark the
centenary of Norman Lindsay's birth and is a fascinating
collection of letters by Norman mostly written to his family
and friends but also to poets, authors, artists, collectors,
publishers, politicians and newspapers. There are eighty-five
recipients of letters in this volume, many having more than
one letter reproduced: there are 30 letters to his brother
Lionel, 23 to Douglas Stewart, 18 to Hugh McCrae, 17 to John
Hetherington and 12 each to his sister Mary and wife Rose
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| ROSE LINDSAY |
Ma and Pa
1963
Rose Lindsay
Hardcover, dustjacket
When Rose Lindsay's Ma and Pa took their young brood to live at Longueville, the neighbours eyed askance the workman's cottage Pa was building. 'It looked,' she says, 'like a circus at camp.' All they owned were a few chairs, a table, some butter-boxes covered with cretonne, and an oleograph of Queen Victoria, their one treasure. But Pa was soon out in the bush above Sydney's Lane Cove River getting timber to make a 'rustic suite' — fantastically wrought furniture of which he was so proud that he would dust it with a paintbrush if ever a visitor was coming.
Spirited and resilient, Ma reared nine kids while managing Pa through all his ups and downs — his drinking bouts, gold fever, his inability to butcher a pig (or even to bandage its throat afterwards), his queer gardening habits, and his desertion of the family and eventual return. Theirs was a crafty but warm partnership and Rose tells of it with a clear-eyed natural humour. One night Pa stumbled in 'swathed in strangled black fowls' and bent on cooking a festive dinner, while Ma and the kids sat stunned by the preparations. Vividly Rose recalls a day when tiny Ma (one inch taller than the Queen), in one of her rages, took a flying leap at Pa's lustrous beard and swung there 'like a kid on a maypole' until he bellowed for mercy. And there was an unsober night when Pa stepped off the ferry onto a gangplank that had just been removed, and afterwards, dripping wet and crestfallen, carried a swooning Ma all the way home and tucked her gently into bed while little Rose held a candle near. 'Why,' he said, 'anyone would think it was you that fell in instead of me.'
Well known as the wife of Norman Lindsay and the model of many of his paintings, Rose here pictures one family's life in Sydney in the days when sovereigns were currency and Monsieur Joubert ran his ferry steamers from Fig Tree to Erskine Street. Funny and touching, warm-hearted yet detached, Ma and Pa is a book that always seems close to the mainsprings of life.
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Ma and Pa
1965
Rose Lindsay
Ure Smith, Sydney
Humorbooks Edition
Softcover
Cross my heart! — as soon as I had mastered the somewhat unconventional phrasing, I was hooked, line and sinker. Ma and Pa is certainly no masterpiece of contemporary letters, but for rollicking fun and sly humour, not unmixed with pathos, it is a little trimmer.
Leon Gellert
When Rose Lindsay's Ma and Pa took their young brood to live at Longueville, the neighbours eyed askance the workman's cottage Pa was building. 'It looked,' she says, 'like a circus at camp.' All they owned were a few chairs, a table, some butter-boxes covered with cretonne, and an oleograph of Queen Victoria, their one treasure. But Pa was soon out in the bush above Sydney's Lane Cove River getting timber to make a 'rustic suite' — fantastically wrought furniture of which he was so proud that he would dust it with a paintbrush if ever a visitor was coming. Spirited and resilient, Ma reared nine kids while managing Pa through all his ups and downs — his drinking bouts, gold fever, his inability to butcher a pig (or even to bandage its throat afterwards), his queer gardening habits, and his desertion of the family and eventual return. Theirs was a crafty but warm partnership and Rose tells of it with a clear-eyed natural humour.
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Model Wife: My Life with Norman Lindsay
1967
Rose Lindsay
Ure Smith, Sydney
Hardcover, dustjacket, black and white
No
episode in my life has ever caused me so much embarrassment as having
to feel my little silk chemise forcibly - but gently - removed by Sydney
Long, when he peered around the screen in his studio to inquire why
I was so long preparing to pose.
Rose Lindsay
This delicious sentence introduces the reader to Rose Lindsay's memories
of her life as an artist's model in the Sydney of the early 1900s,
when she posed for both the established and the aspiring painters.
Among the latter was Norman Lindsay, then at the beginning of his controversial
career. He and his new model soon became inseparable.
So began a new life for Rose, full of encounters with the artistic
and literary figures of the day (recalled with a unique talent for
pinpointing their most characteristic and humorous traits). This earliest
period culminated in a trip to London — which was to be something
of an endurance test for the couple, only relieved by a rollicking
stay in Paris. Then, on their return to Australia, Norman fell seriously
ill.
The tide of their fortunes turned again at Springwood in the Blue Mountains.
There, with here brother Ben and the resilient Norman, Rose established
the Lindsay ménage. Two children were born and flourished amide
a profusion of poets, painters and visiting celebrities — and
animals, who provide some of the funniest anecdotes. In the 1930s Rose
and Norman again journeyed abroad — to New York and London. In
new York they met Fanny Hurst, Edna Ferber, Ogden Nash, and other notables.
But one cannot adequately summarize the riches of this second volume
of Rose Lindsay's memories, packed as it is with wonderful stories
from the past that reveal the author's delightfully dry sense of humour
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Rose Lindsay: A Model Life
2001
Rose Lindsay
Odana Editions, Bungendore
Hardcover, no dustjacket, colour and black and white
Rose Lindsay's memoirs Ma and Pa: My Childhood Memories and Model Wife: My Life with Norman Lindsay were first published in 1963 and 1967 respectively and both are now rare books. Here for the first time they are published in one volume, Rose Lindsay: A Model Life.
In Ma and Pa, Rose, in effect, writes a history of the Sydney suburb of Longueville during the 1890s and early 1900s. The book is people with unforgettable real-life characters and illustrated with Rose's own quirky pen and ink illustrations. Funny and touching, Ma and Pa is the warm-hearted story of one family's life in Sydney, the constant struggle for survival and the resilience of Ma who kept and ever watchful eye on her brood of nine children.
Model Wife traces Rose through her early modelling days, her meeting with Norman Lindsay, their life together in Sydney and Springwood and their travels to England and America. Apart from the intimate details of Rose's life with Norman, this book is peppered with the artistic and literary figures of the day: among others Dame Nellie Melba, Anna Pavlova, Fritz Kreisler, Julian Ashton, Elioth Gruner, Hans Heysen, Miles Franklin, HG Wells, Fanny Hurst, Edna Ferber and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Rose emerged from humble beginnings to become a woman of style and substance with enormous strength of character. She was model and wife of Norman Lindsay (one of Australia's most controversial and best known artists), master printmaker, business woman and mother of two. Rose Lindsay should rightfully be regarded as one of the outstanding female personalities of twentieth century Australia.
A Model Life is packed with wonderful stories from the past, richly illustrated and written with Rose's dry sense of humour and irrepressible joie de vivre.
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| JANE LINDSAY |
Portrait of Pa
1973
Jane Lindsay
Hardcover, dustjacket, black and white
Jane
Lindsay is Norman Lindsay's daughter and writes about her celebrated Pa
with affection, gusto and exasperation. Whether he is darting from house
to studio in the rare glimpses which his children caught of him, or rigging
up a fairy to dance for them over the lawn, or jousting with the censorship,
or fleeing from parties and visitors, she portrays him with the down-to-earth
honesty, high sense of comedy and underlying faith in the arts characteristic
of almost all Lindsay writings.
As well as being her father's daughter, she is a writer and a personality
of note in her own right. not only is this book an intimate portrait of
Norman and Rose Lindsay such as only a member of the family could have
painted, but also it is Jane Lindsay's delightful autobiography of childhood
games in tree-houses and cubby-houses, of a brief but not inglorious career
at a famous Sydney girls' school, of riding her horse through the bush
accompanied by an emu name emmy, of pea-picking, farming and marrying.
Although it is mostly light in tone, there are also some very moving and
dramatic events in Portrait of Pa: notably in the little-known
story of the destruction by fire in America of many of the artist's best
pen drawings and watercolours, and in the account of his wayward and indomitable
old age. The book is illustrated with many family photographs which have
not previously been published and with some of Norman Lindsay's charming
wash drawings of the cat who lived in his wastepaper basket and the mice
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Portrait of Pa
1983
Jane Lindsay
Softcover, black and white
Jane
Lindsay is Norman Lindsay's daughter and writes about her celebrated Pa
with affection, gusto and exasperation. Whether he is darting from house
to studio in the rare glimpses which his children caught of him, or rigging
up a fairy to dance for them over the lawn, or jousting with the censorship,
or fleeing from parties and visitors, she portrays him with the down-to-earth
honesty, high sense of comedy and underlying faith in the arts characteristic
of almost all Lindsay writings.
As well as being her father's daughter, she is a writer and a personality
of note in her own right. not only is this book an intimate portrait of
Norman and Rose Lindsay such as only a member of the family could have
painted, but also it is Jane Lindsay's delightful autobiography of childhood
games in tree-houses and cubby-houses, of a brief but not inglorious career
at a famous Sydney girls' school, of riding her horse through the bush
accompanied by an emu name emmy, of pea-picking, farming and marrying.
Although it is mostly light in tone, there are also some very moving and
dramatic events in Portrait of Pa: notably in the little-known
story of the destruction by fire in America of many of the artist's best
pen drawings and watercolours, and in the account of his wayward and indomitable
old age. The book is illustrated with many family photographs and with
some of Norman Lindsay's charming wash drawings of the cat who lived in
his wastepaper basket. |
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Portrait of Pa
1994
Jane Lindsay
Softcover, black and white
People
said he was a genius ... But genius is hard to recognise at close quarters.
We had grown up with him operating like a one-man picture factory in
the studio across the garden.
Jane Lindsay
Jane Lindsay writes about her father, Norman Lindsay, with affection, gusto
and exasperation. Whether the artist is darting from house to studio, rigging
up a fairy to dance for his children over the lawn, jousting with the censorship
enforcers or fleeing from parties and visitors, his daughter portrays him
with down-to earth honesty, a high sense of comedy and an underlying faith
in the arts that is characteristic of the writings of this illustrious
family.
The book is illustrated with some revealing family photographs and a selection
of Norman Lindsay's delightful and always unforgettable drawings. Portrait
of Pa is an intimate portrait of Norman Lindsay and his wife Rose
Lindsay such as only a member of the family could have painted, and captures
the spirit of this great Australian artist and writer and the times in
which he lived. |
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Portrait of Pa
1996
Jane Lindsay
Softcover, black and white
People
said he was a genius ... But genius is hard to recognise at close quarters.
We had grown up with him operating like a one-man picture factory in
the studio across the garden.
Jane Lindsay
Portrait of Pa is an insider's account of Norman Lindsay and his
wife rose which captures the spirit of this great Australian artist and
writer and his times.
Jane Lindsay writes about her famous father, Norman Lindsay, with affection,
gusto and exasperation. Whether the artist is darting from house to studio,
rigging up a fairy to dance for his children over the lawn, jousting with
the censorship enforcers or fleeing from parties and visitors, his daughter
portrays him with down-to earth honesty, a high sense of comedy and an
underlying faith in the arts that has characterised the illustrious Lindsay
family.
This classic memoir of a most unusual father is charmingly illustrated
with revealing family photographs and a selection of Norman Lindsay's delightful
drawings. |
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Portrait of Pa
2007
Jane Lindsay
Odana Edition, Bungendore
Softcover, black and white |
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| JOHN HETHERINGTON |
Norman Lindsay: The Embattled Olympian
1973
John Hetherington
Oxford University Press
Hardcover, dustjacket, black and white
Norman
Lindsay was one of the most controversial Australian of his own or any
other time. He lived for ninety years and was rarely out of the public
eye for long in his adult life. An unrelenting enemy of 'the Wowsers',
as he called them, he was more or less constantly at war with the puritans
and their creed. Born in the old gold-mining town of Creswick, Victoria,
in 1879, Norman Lindsay was one of a family of ten, of whom four brothers
and a sister won distinction as artists.
As a fine artist, he was famous for his pen drawings, etchings, oil paintings
and watercolours; as a journalistic artist, for his topical cartoons and
comic drawings; as a writer, for his novels and philosophical studies,
a classic children's story, The Magic Pudding, and other works.
He was a gifted illustrator and able sculptor, a builder of fine ship models.
Through his efforts as a pathfinder for poets and prose writers, he exercised
a major influence on the growth and direction of Australian literature.
Hetherington's biography is a relentlessly penetrating account of this
extraordinary man's life and times, written in the spirit of Lytton Strachey's
admonition, 'Discretion is not the better part of biography'. It vividly
depicts not only the central figure but his intimate associates also — his
brothers Lionel and Percy, his talented sons Jack, Phil and Ray, the poets
Douglas Stewart, Kenneth Slessor and Hugh McCrae, the cartoonist Will Dyson,
the fiction writers Brian James, Godfrey Blunden and Brian Penton, the
flamboyant commercial adventurers Hugh D McIntosh and Randolph Bedford,
and a score of others. It explores his first marriage to inept and gentle
Katie Parkinson, his second marriage to beautiful and compelling Rose Soady.
It also lays bare the facts of such cryptic episodes as his experiments
with Spiritualism, and the evolution of the Olympian theory which governed
his attitude to life.
Hetherington writes of Norman Lindsay with special authority. The two were
friends for many years, and in 1957 Lindsay asked Hetherington to write
the biography 'when the undertaker has disposed of my carcass'; he later
inserted a clause to that effect in his Will. While Norman Lindsay:
The Embattled Olympian is thus the expression of a pledge by the author
to the subject, it is also a model of detached study and dispassionate
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| DOUGLAS STEWART |
Norman Lindsay: A Personal Memoir
1975
Douglas Stewart
Thomas Nelson (Australia)
Hardcover, dustjacket, black and white
This
book is Douglas Stewart's record of thirty years' close friendship with
Australia's most controversial artist.
Whether he is lunching in the studio at No. 12 Bridge Street, Sydney, with
Norman Lindsay's beautiful naked models, or at Springwood, listening with
the fairy-like marsupial mice to readings of Dickens and Conrad or plunging
down the gullies in search of the yabbies, centipedes and orchids about
which he wrote poems that Lindsay illustrated, Douglas Stewart writes about
the artist — his circle, his background, his personality and the
many facets of his art — with unique knowledge and authority.
As editor of the Bulletin's famous 'Red Page' from 1939 to 1960,
Douglas Stewart was closely associated with Norman Lindsay in fostering
the movement of Australian writing during that exciting period. The poets
Hugh McCrae, Kenneth Slessor, Robert D FitzGerald, Kenneth Mackenzie, David
Campbell; the novelists Brian Penton, 'Brian James', Eve Langley, Lawson
Glassop, Jack and Phillip Lindsay; the painters Gruner, Heysen, Max Meldrum,
Lance Solomon and Percy Lindsay; Borovansky, Dolia Ribush and May Hollinworth
in the theatre — these are some of the people, along with a further
glittering array of celebrities from Melba to Malcolm Muggeridge, from
Sir Robert Menzies to Sir Paul Hasluck, who are one way or another connected
with the Lindsay story in these memories. And it is the combination of
wide-ranging personal knowledge, together with Douglas Stewart's own qualities
of style and wit, that give this record its special place as a contribution
to Lindsayana and to Australian cultural history.
The book is profusely illustrated with photographs and Norman Lindsay drawings,
most of them previously unpublished. |
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| PEARL GOLDMAN |
Memories of Norman Lindsay and the Theatre
1999
Pearl Goldman
John A Elliot, Gold Coast and Hinterland
Softcover, black and white
Knowing
Norman Lindsay has been one of the great highlight of my life. He was
a kind, brilliant and gentle man who talked all the times as he worked.
He spoke so fast that one had to listen very carefully as he rattled
off tales of his travels and life in general, and about his early life
in Creswick, a declining gold-mining town near Ballarat.
Pearl Goldman
Memories of Norman Lindsay and the Theatre is Pearl Goldman's
account of her life: her modelling years with Norman Lindsay and her
stage and screen performances from 1937 to 1997.
Pearl dedicated her book to the memory of Norman Lindsay 1879–1969
on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the year of his birth. |
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| LIN BLOOMFIELD |
The World of Norman Lindsay
1979
Lin Bloomfield (editor)
Macmillan
Hardcover, dustjacket, colour and black and white
Norman
Lindsay lived with a passion and intensity known to few. In the worlds
of his sister, Mary, he was 'practically born with a pencil in his hand'
and it is certainly true that he was holding one when he died.
Over a period of more than seventy years Norman Lindsay produced a prodigious
volume of work. His etchings place him amongst the world's most highly
regarded exponents of the medium and his pen drawings are masterpieces
of draughtsmanship and control. However, these represent a mere fraction
of Lindsay's total output. Oils and watercolours; woodcuts, bookplates
and lithographs; novels and book illustrations; carvings and sculpture
- to all these things Norman applied his talents, while at the same time
being a principal cartoonist for the Bulletin. For relaxation
he painstakingly built ship models, intricate in details and true to scale.
The World of Norman Lindsay contains a rich selection of Lindsay's
work — much of which has not previously been reproduced — as
well as numerous photographs taken from family albums and unpublished letters
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The World of Norman Lindsay
1983
Lin Bloomfield (editor)
Sun Books
Softcover, black and white
Norman
Lindsay lived with a passion and intensity known to few. In the
worlds of his sister, Mary, he was 'practically born with a pencil
in his hand' and it is certainly true that he was holding one when
he died.
Over a period of more than seventy years Norman Lindsay produced
a prodigious volume of work. His etchings place him amongst the
world's most highly regarded exponents of the medium and his pen
drawings are masterpieces of draughtsmanship and control. However,
these represent a mere fraction of Lindsay's total output. Oils
and watercolours; woodcuts, bookplates and lithographs; novels and
book illustrations; carvings and sculpture - to all these things
Norman applied his talents, while at the same time being a principal
cartoonist for the Bulletin. For relaxation he painstakingly
built ship models, intricate in details and true to scale.
The World of Norman Lindsay contains a rich selection of
Lindsay's work — much of which has not previously been reproduced
— as well as numerous photographs taken from family albums
and unpublished letters and manuscripts. |
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The World of Norman Lindsay
1995
Lin Bloomfield (editor)
Odana Editions
Softcover, black and white |
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| HARRY CHAPLIN |
Norman Lindsay
1969
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Norman Lindsay: His Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters
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A Survey: The Fanfrolico Press
1976
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A Lindsay Miscellany
1978
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| REBECCA WILEY |
Rebecca Wiley's Visit to Norman Lindsay at Springwood May 1918
1986
Rebecca Wiley
Angus & Robertson
Hardcover, dustjacket, black and white
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1918 Rebecca Wiley was sent by her employer, publisher George Robertson,
to visit Norman Lindsay at his home at Springwood in the Blue Mountains
of New South Wales. On her return she excitedly described her observations
and the conversations she had had with Lindsay.
'Write it down', Robertson must have told her. 'Put it on paper and we'll
keep a record of it.' And as if to give Rebecca's account official approval,
Robertson wrote a preface, had the manuscript bound, and filed it in Angus & Robertson's
archives.
Rediscovered after nearly seventy years and now published for the first
time, this work gives a fascinating glimpse into the life of one of the
most extraordinary and controversial figures in Australian art and literature.
Today thousands of visitors each year are attracted to the National Trust
Norman Lindsay Art Gallery and Museum, where they marvel at the statuary,
ship models, paintings, books and etchings on display. Although at the
time of Rebecca's visit the full range of Lindsay's talents was not yet
apparent, his reputation as a black-and-=white artist was firmly established.
The cartoons he drew regularly for the Bulletin had made his name a household
word, he was working on posters for the arm's recruiting campaign, and
later in the year was to publish The Magic Pudding, a classic
that has remained in print ever since.
The conversations recorded by Rebecca reveal an analytical and strongly
opinionated man, firmly convinced of his own superiority. Christianity
was dismissed, the English class system deplored, the works of Dickens
lauded, and judgements swiftly passed on Henry Lawson, Hugh McCrae, C J
Dennis and Dame Nellie Melba among many others.
Rebecca Wiley's lively text is here enhanced with 90 black and white and
colour photographs and background information on the people, places and
literary and artistic works mentioned in her original manuscript. |
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