George Molnar b. 1910

Also known as Mo
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Architect ,
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Molnar was an architect, cartoonist, watercolourist, illustrator and architecture lecturer at Sydney University and the University of NSW. His lecturers were highly praised by students. While his architecture appears undocumented, he is best known for his cartoons for Sydney's daily newspapers, frequently satirical and often directed at his architectural profession.
Tags: modernism, cartoonist, lecturer

Citations

  • Molnar, George (December 1964), 'Technocracy – The enemy of architecture?’, Architecture in Australia, Volume 53, Number 4, pages 68-76, .

  • Filmer, V. (1983), 'Catalogue’, City of Ballaarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic.

  • Fitzgerald, Alan (1975), 'Life in Canberra – A Satirical Guide illustrated by Molnar’, Clareville Press, Canberra, ACT.

  • Germaine, Max (1990), 'Artists & galleries of Australia’, Craftsman House (3rd, enlarged, edition), Roseville, NSW.

  • Kerr, Joan (1999), 'Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White’, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

  • Kerr, Joan (2003), '[essay]’, Human scale in architecture – George Molnar’s Sydney, Jo Holder, Robert Freestone, Joan Kerr, eds, Craftsman House, St Leonards, NSW.

  • King, Jonathan (1979), 'The other side of the coin – a cartoon history of Australia’, Cassell Australia (Revised edition), Stanmore, NSW.

  • Molnar, George (1954), 'Statues’, Phoenix House, London, England, UK.

  • Molnar, George (1959), 'Insubstantial Pageant’, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, NSW.

  • Molnar, George (1961), 'Postcards’, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, NSW.

  • Molnar, George (1968), 'Molnar at Large’, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, NSW.

  • Molnar, George (1976), 'Molnar 1970-76’, John Fairfax, Sydney, NSW.

  • Molnar, George (1976), 'Moral Tales’, Hutchinson, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Molnar, George (1958), 'How to be a tourist’, Quadrant, Number 9 [Volume 3, Number 1] (summer 1958-59), pp 39-48.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1979), 'The inked-in image – a social and historical survey of Australian comic art’, Hutchinson of Australia (new edition), Richmond, Vic.

  • McCulloch, Alan and Susan (1994), 'Encyclopedia of Australian art’, Allen & Unwin (3rd revised edition), St Leonards, NSW.

  • Rafty, Tony with Mack, Brodie (1964), 'Fifty Years of Australian Cartooning’, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

  • Souter, Gavin (1981), 'Company of Heralds – a century and a half of Australian publishing by John Fairfax Limited and its predecessors, 1831-1981’, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic.

  • Walsh, Richard (1966), 'No Holts Barred’, Sun Books, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Walsh, Richard (1967), 'Gough Syrup’, Sun Books, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1964), Art & Australia, Volume 2, Number 1, February, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1965), 'Cartoonists’ viewpoint’, The Grollier Society of Australia, Encyclopaedia Year Book 1965 – Australian Edition, Sydney, NSW, page 146.

  • (1998), '[BFAG computer list]’, City of Ballaarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic.

  • Gooding, Janda (1997), 'Art Gallery of Western Australia [cartoon printout]’, Art Gallery of Western Australia [Information from], June, Perth, WA.

  • (1998), 'video of Molnar discussing his cartooning career’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Morning Herald exhibition, January, Sydney, NSW.

  • Kerr, Joan, '[Joan Kerr Archive]’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • Molnar, Carol (Mrs), Information from.

  • Tanner, Les (1963), 'Black and White Art in Australia’, Current Affairs Bulletin, volume 33, number 3, December, 23, Sydney, NSW, page 45.

  • Rebecca Hawcroft, “From the Margins to the Mainstream” in R. Hawcroft, Ed., The Other Moderns, UNSW Press, 2017, pp.165-190. [career summary]

See also

  • '(Self?) portrait ill. King, 160'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists