Talk:Norman Lindsay

Boxer
Not only was he a highly talented boxer, he also supported himself at various times by being paid as a sparring partner. I have restored the passage to the article. Lindsay658 21:25, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Movements?
This site says

"In December 1930 'Art in Australia' had published a special Norman Lindsay number, a great honour for any artist. By June 1931, despite the Great Depression, five thousand copies had been sold at 3s 6d. After a member of the public lodged a complaint, however, the police raided the office of 'Art in Australia' and seized all the blocks and remaining copies. A summons was issued against Art in Australia Ltd to answer charges of having been concerned in the issue of an obscene publication. Self Portrait was the main reason for police action. Perhaps the good fathers of officialdom (who had never previously taken action when Art in Australia published female nudes) were unable to accept the explicit representation of the main male nude in the etching. When the case finally came to court it was dismissed by the magistrate, but the whole affair left Norman with a permanent fear of police action. Thirteen days after the summons was dismissed, Norman and Rose left for America."

The entry says nothing about this. The implication is that he lived in the USA for the rest of his life. Did he return, and if so when? Where did he die? --Hugh7 (talk) 10:30, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Lindsay’s visit to the USA was brief. He claimed he was dismissed there as an ‘illustrator’. Lindsay soon returned to Australia, spent the rest of his life in Springwood, and died there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:2D90:83B8:49E4:2C56 (talk) 08:51, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Lindsay's paintings
This is an awful presentation of Lindsay! While it notes his huge output, it basically portrays him as an artist only producing war propaganda illustrations. Lindsay was famous / infamous in Australia when I grew up because of his nudes, but his work was admitted as being fabulous, even by his critics. He was a one of the few 'art nouveau' painters in Australia. Perhaps this 'biography' of Lindsay was specifically chosen to keep the 'wowsers' happy? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.102.82.14 (talk) 22:43, 12 January 2017 (UTC)


 * (Answering very belatedly.) The problem in part, I think, is that Lindsay's propaganda work is under Crown Copyright, so it's in the public domain worldwide and you can easily upload it to Commons, but since he died in 1969, the vast majority of his work won't be freely available until 2040. However, some of it can be uploaded here at English Wikipedia, since it was published before 1927. (See commons:COM:HIRTLE.) See the media in Category:Norman Lindsay.
 * It's a bit of a chore figuring out which of his works were published, not just displayed. So far, I've found a few items in old art journals and such, plus the introduction to Selected Pen Drawings (published 1968, only snippet view available) says: There have been four previous collections in book form of Norman Lindsay's pen drawings: The Pen Drawings of Norman Lindsay (Sydney, 1918), a special number of Art in Australia published by Angus and Robertson; Pen Drawings (Sydney, 1924), a handsome limited edition of 500 copies; Art in Australia's "Norman Lindsay Number" (Sydney, 1930).... The first two are pre-1927, but not on Google Books. (Well, not with any preview available; see, .) Some auction sites have some images ; this one has a legible index: first page, second page.
 * Any kind of digging like this is necessarily going to be difficult and incomplete, as these original publications are expensive, rare books. But I should be able to at least upload a number of his early works. Some of them match up in title, year, and size; consider "The vintage festival" at Art Gallery NSW. It's also from 1905, and the size is "28.2 x 25.3 cm image; 32.6 x 28.4 cm sheet"; the catalog lists it as 13 inches by 11.5 inches, which is 33 by 29 cm, which matches very closely to the entry on the index. I'll upload that, and see what else I can match up from the indexes I can find. grendel&#124;khan 22:22, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Wait, never mind that, this auction house has nearly-scan-quality photos of all of the plates of the 1918 book. I'll upload and crop them. grendel&#124;khan 17:56, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Any kind of digging like this is necessarily going to be difficult and incomplete, as these original publications are expensive, rare books. But I should be able to at least upload a number of his early works. Some of them match up in title, year, and size; consider "The vintage festival" at Art Gallery NSW. It's also from 1905, and the size is "28.2 x 25.3 cm image; 32.6 x 28.4 cm sheet"; the catalog lists it as 13 inches by 11.5 inches, which is 33 by 29 cm, which matches very closely to the entry on the index. I'll upload that, and see what else I can match up from the indexes I can find. grendel&#124;khan 22:22, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Wait, never mind that, this auction house has nearly-scan-quality photos of all of the plates of the 1918 book. I'll upload and crop them. grendel&#124;khan 17:56, 24 May 2022 (UTC)