Ruby Lindsay

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| image = Ruby Lindsay portrait photograph (cropped).jpg

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1885|3|20|df=y}}

| birth_place = Creswick, Victoria, Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1919|3|12|1885|3|20|df=y}}

| death_place = London, United Kingdom

| education = National Gallery of Victoria

| field = Illustration, Painting

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| awards = First Prize for Best Poster at Australian Exhibition of Women's Work

| spouse = Will Dyson

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Ruby Lindsay (20 March 1885 – 12 March 1919){{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Bernard|title=Lindsay, Ruby (1885–1919)|chapter=Ruby Lindsay (1885–1919) |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lindsay-ruby-7758|website=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=28 September 2017}} was an Australian illustrator and painter, sister of Norman Lindsay and Percy Lindsay.

Biography

Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria, the seventh child and second daughter of Robert and Jane Lindsay, and lived in Melbourne from the age of 16 with her brother Percy while studying at the National Gallery of Victoria School.

Lindsay drew occasionally for The Bulletin and illustrated William Moore's Studio Sketches (1906) and designed posters and certificates including the Certificate First Class and a prize-winning poster for the Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work, in 1907.{{Cite book | author1=Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum | author2=Hannon, Geoff | author3=McKay, Kirsten | author4=Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum | title=Portrait of an exhibition : centenary celebration of the First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work 1907 | publication-date=2007 | publisher=The Museum | isbn=978-0-9757388-5-6}}

As an illustrator she went by several names; signing her work as "Ruby Lyne", "Ruby Lyn", "Ruby Lind", and once as "Ruby Ramsbottom".{{Cite web|url=http://theconversation.com/hidden-women-of-history-ruby-lindsay-one-of-australias-first-female-graphic-designers-109184|title=Hidden women of history: Ruby Lindsay, one of Australia's first female graphic designers|last=Connory|first=Jane|date=16 January 2019|website=The Conversation|language=en|accessdate=19 January 2019}} She was described by art critic Haldane MacFall as "the most remarkable woman in the pen-line now living" in his History of Painting.{{Cite journal |last=Fitz Henry |first=W. E. |date=1955-12-14 |title=A Galaxy of Characters: Stories of the "Bulletin" |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-675656446 |journal=The Bulletin |series=John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues). |location=Sydney, N.S.W |publisher=John Haynes and J.F. Archibald |volume=76 |issue=Christmas Number 3957 |issn=0007-4039 |id=nla.obj-675656446 |access-date=27 April 2023 |via=Trove}}

On 30 September 1909 she married Will Dyson and then left for England with him and her brother Norman Lindsay.{{cite news |date=1 October 1909 |title=Artistic Families |page=1 |newspaper=The Herald |issue=10,592 |location=Victoria, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241955531 |accessdate=27 April 2023 |via=National Library of Australia}} Her brother Lionel had earlier married Will's sister Jean.{{Cite news |date=1 October 1909 |title=Artistic Families |pages=1 |work=Herald |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241955531 |accessdate=19 January 2019}} Ruby and Will had one daughter, Betty (1911–1956).

In 1912, she contributed illustrations to the book Epigrams of Eve by child welfare advocate and journalist Sophie Irene Loeb. After World War I she visited relations in Ireland and died during the Spanish flu pandemic. Lindsay is buried in the same grave as her husband in Hendon Cemetery, London. Her name on the headstone is shown as "Ruby Lind".

Gallery

Society of Artists, Sydney poster 1907.png|Society of Artists exhibition poster, 1907

Fan, Ruby Lindsay.jpg|Fan design

Princes Risborough, Ruby Lindsay.jpg|Princes Risborough

Mother and child by Ruby Lindsay.jpg|Mother and child sketch

Books

[https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/26370718 The Drawings of Ruby Lind (Mrs Will Dyson)]
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/6703241 Naughty Sophia] by Winifred Letts, illustrated by Ruby Lind
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9964713 Epigrams of Eve] by Sophie Irene Loeb, illustrated by Ruby Lind
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18833821 What Eve said] by Sophie Irene Loeb, illustrated by Ruby Lind
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8843873 Fables of everyday folk] by Sophie Irene Loeb, illustrated by Ruby Lind
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5782044? The cynic's autograph book. no. 2] by Celt, illustrated by Ruby Lind
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/232200245 Hello, Soldier!: Khaki Verse] by Edward Dyson, illustrations by Will Dyson, Ruby Lind and George Dancey
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8495616 At the "Labour in Vain" : being the reflections and recollections of an idle man] by Harold Hansell, illustrated by Ruby Lindsay

References

External links

Bernard Smith, '[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100677b.htm Lindsay, Ruby (1885 - 1919)]', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, MUP, 1986, pp 106–115. Retrieved 2009-09-14
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Category:1885 births

Category:1919 deaths

Category:20th-century Australian painters

Category:20th-century Australian women artists

Category:19th-century Australian women artists

Category:Australian illustrators

Category:Australian women illustrators

Category:Australian women painters

Category:Deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic in England

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Category:Australian people of Irish descent

Category:Australian people of English descent