THE DICTIONARY OF AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS Painters

Against provincialism: Australian-American connections 1900–2000

“…At the same time in New York we have Russom, who for many years was a staff artist on the New York Times and ''made his first hit with a series of drawings in Life, in which [in a satirical way] he pictured the transit problems of the future''. 22 He had studied at Ashton's and left for San Francisco aged nineteen around 1906, but not before he had his work acquired for the Art Gallery of NSW at the age of seventeen. He eventually returned to Australia and died in Newcastle in 1952.…”

“…Hopkins arrived in Australia in 1882, the same year as Bradley, bringing with him ''Australia's first photo-engraving equipment, which allowed drawings to be photographed and transferred onto metal plates for printing, thus making topical daily cartoons a possibility''. 19 From 1887 on, Hopkins was the chief Bulletin cartoonist for decades, ending up doing more than 19,000 drawings for the magazine. He undertook trips to the country with Banjo Patterson, started an artist's camp with Julian Ashton on his land at Balmoral in Sydney, and taught etching at various times to Ashton, Roberts and Arthur Streeton.…”

Destined not to survive: The illustrated newspapers of colonial Australia

“…One of the original partners in the paper and principal engraver, Walter Mason, had previously worked (before emigrating to Australia) on the Illustrated London News, Punch, and other illustrated publications in England. 27 Not surprisingly, then, of all colonial illustrated papers published during the trial and error period, the Illustrated Sydney News was the paper most closely modeled on the Illustrated London News. So, while the latter paper was undoubtedly a source of competition, its colonial imitator under Mason's guidance was much more astute in its choice of image, subject matter and quality of production.…”

Censorship Through Explanation: The Corrective Agency of Visibility in Panoramic Perspective and the Panopticon Prison Plan

“…John Richardson Glover (1790Glover ( -1868 arrived in Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), on April 1, 1831. He had traveled on board the Thomas Lawrie from England, which had departed almost 7 months earlier (Kerr, 1992). Richardson Glover was the eldest son of the now famous Australian artist John Glover Sr. (1767-1849, who had traveled with him and his stepmother Sarah Glover on the voyage (Kerr, 1992;Talbot, 1998).…”