Ruby Lindsay

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Illustration of a poster, 1907, signed Ruby Lind.

Ruby Lindsay (born March 20, 1885 in Creswick , Victoria , † March 12, 1919 in London ) was an Australian illustrator and painter with Anglo-Irish roots.

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Ruby was the daughter of the doctor Robert Alexander Lindsay (1843-1915) and his wife Jane Elizabeth Williams (1848-1932). Her maternal grandfather was the Methodist Wesleyan preacher Thomas Williams (1815-1891), who between 1840 and 1853 made a significant contribution to the Christianization of Fiji , where her mother was born. She had nine siblings, including Percy (1870–1952), Lionel (1874–1961), Norman (1879–1969) and Daryl Lindsay (1889–1976).

She lived in Creswick until she was 16 and then went on to study at the Art Academy of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne . During this time she lived with her brother Percy and with his support she was able to publish her first work in the weekly magazine The Bulletin . Over time, people became aware of her and her art nouveau works, and she was increasingly entrusted to produce posters, invitations, etc. for various events. to design.

Through her brother Percy, she made the acquaintance of cartoonist Will Dyson (1880-1938) and married him on September 30, 1909 in Melbourne. The illustrator Ambrose Dyson (1876–1913) became her brother-in-law. The couple went on their honeymoon to London, where Will Dyson got a job at Weekly Despatch . Dyson commented on the beginning of the First World War with caricatures and cartoons of political content and was appointed Australian Official War Artist the following year by the Australian government under Prime Minister Andrew Fisher . Ruby Lindsay lived in London until the end of the war and worked for various government agencies.

After the end of the war, she and her husband traveled to and through Ireland to get to know the land of their ancestors. One week before her 34th birthday, Ruby Lindsay died of the Spanish flu on March 12, 1919 in London .

In 2014 a retrospective exhibition with her book illustrations took place under the title Ruby Lindsay - The Gentle Illustrator at the Norman Lindsay Gallery & Museum in Faulconbridge.

Illustrations, works

  • Winifred Letts: Naughty Sophia. With nearly 100 illustrations by Ruby Lind. Grant Richards, London 1912. (Illustrated children's book).

literature

  • Daryl Lindsay: The leafy tree. My family . Cheshire Edition, Melbourne 1965.
  • Joanna Mendelssohn (Ed.): Letters & liars. Norman Lindsay and the Lindsay family . Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1996, ISBN 0-207-18272-8 .
  • 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).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alan McCulloch: Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 2nd edition. Hutchinson, Richmond, Victoria 1969, p. 331.
  2. ↑ Exhibition information . Retrieved June 29, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Lindsay, Ruby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lind, Ruby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian illustrator and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Creswick , Victoria
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1919
Place of death London