Daryl Lindsay

Daryl Lindsay

Daryl Lindsay , completely Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay (born December 31, 1889 in Creswick , Victoria , † December 25, 1976 in Mornington , Victoria) was an Australian artist with Anglo-Irish roots.

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Lindsay was the youngest son of the doctor Robert Alexander Lindsay (1843-1915) and his wife Jane Elizabeth Williams (1848-1933). His maternal grandfather was the preacher Thomas Williams, a follower of John Wesley (→ Methodist and Wesleyan Churches ). He had nine siblings, including Percy (1870–1952), Lionel (1874–1961), Norman (1879–1969) and Ruby Lindsay (1885–1919).

After finishing school, Lindsay worked on cattle and sheep farms around Collarenebri ( New South Wales ). At the beginning of World War I , he volunteered . He fought in France and later came to London, where he worked in an Australian Imperial Force hospital . At the same time he discovered painting for himself and began to study at the Slade School of Art .

On Valentine's Day (February 14th) 1922, Lindsay married the writer Joan à Beckett Weigall in London . The couple made an extensive trip through Europe and then returned to Australia. They bought a large farm in Baxter (Mulberry Hill) on the Mornington Peninsula, where he also opened his own studio. When their business relationship with Europe ended during the Great Depression, the couple had to rent out their farm and live (without a studio) in a rented apartment in Bacchus March (Victoria). When their financial situation improved, they went back to their farm.

At first he was somewhat overshadowed by his siblings, but at the latest when he worked with Wassily de Basil and his ballet, he had his artistic breakthrough. In 1940 he was appointed curator of the National Gallery of Victoria and between 1942 and 1956 he was director of this museum. As such, he became a member of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra in 1953 .

At the suggestion of the Australian government under Prime Minister Robert Menzies, Queen Elizabeth II ennobled Lindsay on May 31, 1956 as a Knight Bachelor .

One week before his 87th birthday, Daryl Lindsay died on December 25, 1976 in Mornington, where he found his final resting place.

Fonts (selection)

• Back stage with the Covent Garden Russian Ballet . Beagle Press, Sydney 1937.

literature

• Harry F. Chaplin: A Lindsay Miscellany. Norman, Lionel, Ruby, Philip and Mary and other members of the family . Wentworth Books, Sydney 1978.
• Colin Caldwell: Sir Daryl Lindsay . In: Art and Australia , Vol. 15 (1977/78), p. 351, ISSN  0004-301X
• Daryl Lindsay: The leafy tree. My family . Cheshire Edition, Melbourne 1965.
• Joanna Mendelssohn: Letters and Liars. Norman Lindsay and the Lindsay family . Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1996, ISBN 0-207-18272-8 .
• Geoffrey Newmarch: Daryl and Joan Lindsay. Art and life . Creswick Museum, Creswick 2010, ISBN 0-9806-0411-7 .
• Franz Philipp , June Stewart: In honor of Daryl Lindsay. Essays and studies . OUP, Melbourne 1964.
• Ursula Prunster: The legendary Lindsays. Norman, Percy, Lionel Ruby and Daryl Lindsay . Beagle Press, Sydney 1995, ISBN 0-947349-13-8 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, January 6 to February 26, 1995)
• Benjamin Thomas: Daryl Lindsay and the appreciation of indigenous art at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne in the 1940 ' . In: Journal of historiography , Vol. 4 (2011), ISSN  2042-4752