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Percy Lindsay: Artist & Bohemian by Silas Clifford-Smith

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June 2011, no. 332

Percy Lindsay: Artist & Bohemian by Silas Clifford-Smith

Australian Scholarly Publishing, $59.95 pb, 156 pp

Percy Lindsay: Artist & Bohemian by Silas Clifford-Smith

by
June 2011, no. 332

Percy Lindsay was the eldest and least well-known of the remarkable Lindsay brothers (the others were Norman, Lionel, and Darryl). He was born at Creswick, Victoria, in 1870, where he received his initial artistic training before moving to Melbourne in 1895. It was there that year that he first exhibited paintings, in a group show that included such luminaries as David Davies, E. Phillips Fox, and Walter Withers (the latter also taught him). Lindsay continued exhibiting his paintings until 1951: he had seven solo exhibitions between 1926 and 1935. In 1901 he took up illustrative work, which he produced for the remainder of his career. Lindsay married in 1907 and moved to Sydney in 1918, where he lived until his death in 1952.

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