Lionel Lindsay
Australian artist, 1874–1961
Lindsay taught himself etching and engraving in the 1890s while a student, immediately prior to his first trip to Spain and England. On his return to Australia he settled in Sydney as a freelance artist and journalist, contributing to The Bulletin and other magazines and newspapers.
In 1907 he held an exhibition of etchings in Sydney with the Society of Artists. The two decades after 1907 saw him active with the Society of Artists and in 1921, when the Australian Painter-Etchers' Society was formed, Lindsay was its first president. He began to exhibit in London in 1923 and had his most successful exhibition of that period at Colnaghi.
Lindsay became a Trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and was knighted for his services to Australian art in 1941. In 1942 Lindsay published Addled Art, a vituperative and anti-Semitic attack on modernism in art.
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American wood engraver, 1858–1940
American painter, illustrator, author, 1895–1976
Scottish painter and etcher, 1865–1945
American and Australian photographer, 1900–1982
Scottish painter, printmaker, and illustrator, 1880–1969
English painter and designer, 1821–1893
British painter and printmaker, 1890–1978, active in United States
American painter, printmaker, 1901–1973
American photographer, born in Australia, 1895–1980
