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Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney
Clifford-Smith, Silas

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Clifford-Smith, Silas

Author

Silas Clifford-Smith is a researcher with an interest in art and garden history

Australian Arts Club as Author

Education Department Art Gallery as Author

Lindsay, Jack as Author

Lindsay, Lionel as Author

Lindsay, Norman as Author

Lindsay, Percy as Author

Lindsay, Philip as Author

Lindsay, Raymond as Author

XV Independent Group of Artists as Author

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Australian Arts Club

Associated with Sydney art identity Sydney Ure Smith, the Australian Arts Club sought to provide a common meeting ground for artists, for discussion and study.

Education Department Art Gallery

Built as part of the Education Department's fine building in Bridge Street during World War I, the gallery hosted Australian artists' work for more than five decades.

Lindsay, Jack

A writer who lived most of his life in England, Jack Lindsay was the son of Norman Lindsay, and chronicled the bohemian life of Sydney in the 1920s in his autobiography.

Lindsay, Lionel

One of the large Lindsay family of artists and writers, Lionel Lindsay settled in Sydney from 1903, and became a well known art writer as well as a noted watercolourist and printmaker.

Lindsay, Norman

Lured to Sydney by the editor of The Bulletin, Norman Lindsay later found fame as a painter, etcher and writer. His daring images and bohemian reputation made him notable in staid Sydney, and his home at Springwood has, since his death, become one of Australia's most visited house museums.

Lindsay, Percy

An artist who illustrated for the Bulletin and other Sydney publications, Percy Lindsay was also a painter of Sydney harbour, the Hawkesbury River and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Lindsay, Philip

Born in Sydney but brought up in Brisbane, Philip Lindsay returned to Sydney as a teenager and became involved in Sydney's literary subculture.

Lindsay, Raymond

Raised in Brisbane, Raymond Lindsay followed his brothers to Sydney in 1921and trained at the Julian Ashton art school. He became a painter of historical paintings, and later an art critic.

XV Independent Group of Artists

Disillusioned with the existing art societies, 15 dissident artists formed themselves into a group promoting 'some intelligible message and a sound craftsmanship with which to express it'.