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AbstractHistoryArchive Description
Type of Media
Newspapers and magazines
Access for Researchers
By appointment
Content Summary
- Cartoons, comic strips, story illustrations, covers (photographs and scrapbooks) by William Edwin Pidgeon for various newspapers and magazines, including: "Sunday News"; "Evening News"; "The Daily Guardian"; "The Sunday Guardian"; "The World"; "To-Day"; "Wireless Weekly"; "Australian Monthly"; "The Australian Women’s Weekly"; "Daily Telegraph"; and "Sunday Telegraph"; 1925-1959 and 1974
- War correspondent artwork: "The Australian Women’s Weekly"; "Daily Telegraph"; 1943-1945
- Letters home while on assignment in the Pacific War Zone for "Daily Telegraph" and "The Australian Women’s Weekly", 1943-1945
- Art reviews: "Sunday Telegraph", 1974-1979
Comments
William Edwin Pidgeon, aka WEP, worked as an artist, illustrator and cartoonist for many publications from 1925 to 1979. He won the Archibald Prize three times. He also wrote art reviews for the "Sunday Telegraph".
A selection of his work of can be found on the website.
Keywords
Walter Edwin Pidgeon, WEP, cartoons, illustrations, comics, newspapers, magazines, World War II, "Daily Telegraph", "Sunday Telegraph", "Australian Women's
Weekly"
Contact Name
Mr Peter Pidgeon
Address
Phone and Fax
peter@pidgeon.info
Website Link 1
Website Link 2
Affiliation Notes
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This record is included in AustLit because it forms part of the Media Archives Project. AustLit does not comprehensively cover Australian Archives.
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