| Summary |
The papers contain newspaper cuttings, photographs, 4 letters from Justice Barry, John Curtin 1941, (re working as camoflage painter) and Keith Murdoch and exhibition catalogues. There is also a menu card from the Bread and Cheese Club. 1949-1950 he did caricatures, for the Weekly Times of local identities. Cuttings are included of these for Yea, Sale, Baachus, Marsh, Buxton, Leongatha, Pakenham, Warragul, Bass, Alexander, Maldon, Worri Yallock, Berwick, Lilydale, Forrest, Kilmore, Heathcote, Barfold, Kyneton, Daylesford, Ballan, Horsham and woodend. Labour Calls, 1925-1927, (in folio) contain his cartoons and his political caricatures
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| Biography/History |
An artist of the traditional Australian landscape school and a black and white caricaturist he worked for the Bulletin, Steele Rudd's magazine, Labor Call, Australian Journal, Table Talk, Punch, The Herald, The Sun, The Listner In, The Argus and others. He was librarian 1955-1964 at the Herald and the Weekly Times. A nephew of Bill Dyson, he was a member of the Victorian Socialist Party and a friend of Albert Monk.
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