Roderick Shaw commercial illustration, art, posters and cartoons

PXD 836

item

1940-1990

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Prints, Posters

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Drawings
Prints
Posters

1) Design for business card for "Roderick Shaw, Drawer, 236 George Street City"
2) 3 pen drawings of Bathurst Island people - Steve, Selena & Barbara -, 1942; 1 pen drawing and source Philip J. Pike photograph of Aboriginal girl
3) 7 ink drawings, and 2 charcoal drawings, for school magazine articles, early 1960s
4) 13 political cartoons by Schweik [Shaw's pseudonynm], and 4 other black & white drawings
5) 6 ink illustrations, initialed RMS, for an unidentified story about a cat apparently set in the Middle Ages
6) 7 pastel drawings, including 5 colour drawings about the sea-side
7) 12 posters, including one for the World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship, Warsaw, 1955; Sydney Film Festival for 1962 & 1982; Children's Book Week 1965; undated coloured bromide for a Gonorrhoea and Syphilis poster; and Australian newspaper placard 30 July 1992 "Max Dupain Dead"
8) 2 prints: one ca.1940 woodcut of a bridge; the other, by GLH, titled "The Glen, Abbotsleigh", 1981
9) Set of published drawings in publication envelope, entitled "Six Drawings" and a limited edition of 250 published by the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign. Contributing artists comprise Roy Dalgarno, Russell Drysdale, Louis James, Roderick Shaw, Brett Whiteley and Tony Woods.
10. 4 Aboriginal designs by Aboriginal artists in an A4 envelope. An incomplete draft of a reply to an Ian Burns article on Fred Williams is written on the envelope.
11. 4 sketchbooks belonging to Roderick Shaw. One is titled "National Art Students Club"
12. Collection of leaves from a dis-bound sketchbook: includes pencil and ink drawings and sketches, and some notes for a couple of exhibition reviews.

In copyright: Life of creator plus 70 years
Copyright holder:: Roderick Shaw
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Roderick Shaw