Percy Lindsay

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Percy Lindsay, 1940

Percy Lindsay , actually Pecival Charles Lindsay (born September 17, 1870 in Creswick , Victoria , † September 21, 1952 in Sydney , New South Wales ) was an Australian painter.

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Lindsay was the son of the doctor Robert Alexander Lindsay (1843-1915) and his wife Jane Elizabeth Williams. His maternal grandfather was the preacher Thomas Williams, a follower of John Wesley (→ Methodist and Wesleyan Churches ). He had nine siblings, including Lionel (1874-1961), Norman (1879-1969), Ruby (1885-1919) and Daryl Lindsay (1889-1976).

Lindsay noticed his talent during his school days and received his first artistic lessons in the studios of Frederick Stanley Sheldon and Walter Withers . When she was twenty or twenty-five, Lindsay went to Melbourne and worked as an illustrator and cartoonist.

In Melbourne he also quickly became the focus of the local artist scene. After the First World War , he settled in Sydney with his wife and daughter . There he mostly painted landscapes, but remained a cartoonist for The Bulletin magazine .

Percy Lindsay died four days after his 82nd birthday on September 21, 1952 in Sydney, where he found his final resting place.

Web links

Commons : Percy Lindsay  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Harry F. Chaplin: A Lindsay Miscellany. Norman, Lionel, Ruby, Philip and Mary and other members of the family . Wentworth Books, Sydney 1978.
  • Silas Clifford-Smith: Percy Lindsay. Artist & Bohemian . Australian Scholarly Publ., North Melbourne 2011, ISBN 978-1-9215-0989-6 .
  • Daryl Lindsay: The leafy tree. My family . Cheshire Edition, Melbourne 1965.
  • Alan McCulloch: Percy Lindsay Catalog . The Ballarat Gallery, Ballarat 1975.
  • Joanna Mendelssohn: Letters and Liars. Norman Lindsay and the Lindsay family . Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1996, ISBN 0-207-18272-8 .
  • Ursula Prunster: The legendary Lindsay. 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)
  • William Ritchie: The Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. Percy Lindsay, Creswick . In: Art Bulletin of Victoria , 1969/70, pp. 30f, ISSN  0066-7935
personal data
SURNAME Lindsay, Percy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindsay, Pecival Charles (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Creswick , Victoria
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1952
Place of death Sydney , New South Wales