Mr Anthony John Heriot Harvey b. 25 May 1930

Also known as Tony Harvey
  • Artist (Graphic Designer),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Harvey was a designer,sculptor, cartoonist, illustrator, print-maker, map maker and author. He also had an extensive career as an educator in Victoria. Especially noted for his wit, humor and economy of line in his Punch and Bulletin cartoons and vibrant range of linocut and silk screen Australian greeting cards produced during the 1950s and 1960s.
Tags: Greeting cards, Print-maker, Sculpture, Author, Designer, Map maker, cartoonist

Citations

  • Max Harris: 'The Christmas Cards of Anthony Harvey’, in Australian Letters, A Quarterly Review of Writing and Criticism, Volume 2, Number 3 (December 1959), pp 42-43 and front cover. “The leading talent is Anthony Harvey… has managed to produce designs unmistakably Australian in character and informed by a humour which is sophisticated but never vulgar or pseudo- funny. To these virtues must be added the superb quality of his hand-colour- printing…”

  • Hewson, Helen (Dr) (sister of Anthony Harvey). Information from Harvey family archive.

  • Hewson, Helen. Tony Harvey obituary: 'Artist had wit and style ahead of his time’. Sydney Morning Herald, 21 September 2014.

    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/obituary-graphic-artist-tony-harvey-had-wit-and-a-style-ahead-of-its-time-20140921-10jwky.html

  • Anthony Harvey, The Melbourne Book. Introduction: Phillip Adams, Hutchinson 1982.

  • Helen Hewson. The Greeting Cards of Anthony Harvey, World of Art & Antiques, Issue 72, Feb-Aug, 2007, pp.180-6.

  • Hewson, Helen. Tony Harvey obituary: 'Versatile designer’s greeting cards brought wit and sophistication to Australian motifs’. The Melbourne Age, 13 September 2014.

  • Felix Behrend. Ulysses’ Father. Illus. Anthony Harvey, Melbourne: F.W.Cheshire, 1962.

  • Anthony Harvey. Commercial Art, Fashion Drawing, Cartooning Course. Stott’s Technical Correspondence College, Melbourne 1963.

  • The Eltham Cookbook for Shillinglaw Cottage. Anthony Harvey contributor. Melbourne: Jonker, 1964.

  • Anthony Harvey. Cartoon: 'It’s the way they draw these wretched tables.’ In The Bulletin Book-a selection from the 1960’s, Melbourne” F.W.Cheshire,1966 p.50.
    E.H. Gombrich reproduced this cartoon in The Image and the Eye, London: Phaidon, (1982)1994, pp.201

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists