![]() ![]() It is about his love for Australia’s soldiers. It is about a sensitive soul, the ups and downs of a sentimental larrikin. He should be much better known today than he is.īut the Will Dyson story is not just a celebration of fame and achievement. He married Ruby Lindsay and knew all her famous artist brothers well-Norman, Lionel, Daryl and Percy Lindsay.ĭyson was described in his heyday as the most famous Australian in the world. He took up etching in his later 40s, and won international acclaim in this field also.īesides all this, he was an instinctive radical with dazzling wit and a convivial personality. He wrote about Australia’s soldiers as superbly as he drew them. Many artists followed Dyson in the First World War and later conflicts, but I am not alone in believing that he remains our finest ever war artist as well as our first.ĭyson was also a sublime writer of prose and poetry. Australia has been blessed with plenty of outstanding cartoonists, but Dyson was right up there with the best of them. He was a brilliant and forceful cartoonist. What I discovered was that Will Dyson was a remarkably talented and versatile artist–writer. Here was someone interesting I wanted to find out more about. to the collection of poor relations and broken winded English party hacks out to grass that make up the State Governors. I see that the State Governors of Australia have been included in the list of recipients. Dyson was not impressed by the proposed distribution of his war lithographs: One day, at the Australian War Memorial’s research centre, I was given a file to look at about Dyson the war artist. I was doing research on a project about the First World War that led me to study Australia’s war art. I will start with a true story about how I first came across Will Dyson many years ago. April 2013 Ross McMullin 'Will Dyson: Australia’s Radical Genius' ![]()
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