Drawings, ca. 1930s-1970s / by James Grainger Phillips

PXX 37

fonds

1930s-1970s

Graphic Materials, Drawings

826092

ca. 85 drawings (3 folders), includes textual material - pencil, ink & watercolour ; letters, printed - ca. 60 x 90 cm, or smaller

James Grainger Phillips was born in Perth in 1915. After his father sent some of his work to the Bulletin, it was approved by Norman Lindsay and he was offered a position. He sailed to Sydney in 1934, aged 19 and started at the Bulletin as an office boy. He quickly became one of the black & white artists working for Smith's Weekly and the Bulletin in the 30's. For the rest of his life he drew and painted. He won the Walkley Award twice.

In 2002, a retrospective exhibition of his boyhood work with Alec Choate, was held at the Subiaco Museum, Perth.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

For further information on James Phillips, see: Dictionary of Australian Artists online

FOLDER 1
Drawings of the Sydney CBD, Harbour and port, showing the redevelopment of the city in the 1960's-1970's. There are drawings of the Qantas Building & State Government Offices, Chifley Square; Circular Quay, Darling Harbour, the western CBD, the Harbour Bridge, Gateway and Dawes Point

FOLDER 2
"Ransom" [cover] / John Cleary
"The Snails" / Patricia Highsmith
"Jack Spratt" (replaces "The One behind him")
"A Journey to Hell - 1940" / Hugh McRae
[Troops in a training camp]
295 Castlereaqh Street, 1944
"Going north" [troop train]
Grocer's store, Phillip Street, Sydney; hideout of Deeming
Mr Pratt
"How the moon came"
"The Wives of Nurunderi"
[Family leaving the beach]
Patrick Hastings trial, 1950
"Give the man another chance"
[Cavalier]
"Where women live in a crater"
[Portraits]
"Saturday-night dance"
[Fish market]
"When I was a kid", illustrations to a short story by Gavin Casey
The Bulletin illustrations & cartoon
"Man in the mask"
"The Boss"
"Been under the Bridge"
"The People were different"; Bulletin illustration to a short story by Douglas Stewart
"You could believe Micky"; illustration to a short story by A.C. Headley

FOLDER 3
Building the Sydney Opera House, 1959-1973 (including letters, articles for Bulletin, 1962, 1964)

Copyright status:: Library Council of New South Wales
Research & study copies allowed: Publication of the drawings requires the written permission of the Library

Transferred from PXD 1030, 10 November 2023

Many works signed by the artist