Norman Carter papers, 1899-1961

MLMSS 471

fonds

1899-1961

422806

Partially Microfilmed : CY 2630 (MLMSS 471/1) ; CY 2547 (MLMSS 471/2-3, MLMSS 471/5)

5 volumes and 1 box of textual material

Norman St. Clair Carter was born in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1875. He studied at the Melbourne National Gallery School and under Phillips Fox and was apprenticed to a stained-glass maker. For 28 years from 1903 he lectured in architecture and history of art at Sydney University, N.S.W. His 'Low-toned Harmony' won a bronze medal at the Paris Salon in 1913. He became well-known for portrait-painting, design of stained-glass, was a pioneer of mural painting in N.S.W. and a foundation member of the Australian Academy of Art. He died in Sydney in 1963

I. Letters received, 28 Feb. 1902-31 Jan. 1961 (MLMSS 471/1-2)
Includes letters from Rupert Bunny, Douglas Dundas, E. Phillips Fox, Hans Heysen, G. W. Lambert, Hugh McCrae, Margaret Preston, Lloyd Rees and Napier Waller.

Index to correspondents compiled in the Mitchell Library filed at MLMSS 471/1.

II. Copies of letters sent, 3 May 1934-25 Nov. 1947 (MLMSS 471/3)
Includes letters to Sydney Ure Smith.

Index to selected correspondents filed at MLMSS 471/1.

III. Diaries, 14 Feb. 1899-9 Sep. 1900, 27 Dec. 1937-27 Apr. 1940 (MLMSS 471/4)

IV. Notes prepared for an autobiography, 1933-1958 (MLMSS 471/5)

V. Lectures, speeches and miscellaneous material, Sep. 1905-26 Aug. 1937 (MLMSS 471/6)
Includes a letter to Maurice Burnell Carter from Lloyd Rees, 1 May 1960

Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (8-637C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011