Daryl Lindsay
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Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay (31 December 1889, Creswick, Victoria - 25 December 1976, Mornington) was an Australian artist.
He was the youngest son in a large family born to Robert Charles Alexander and Jane Elizabeth Lindsay. Daryl and his brothers Percy (the eldest), Lionel, and Norman, achieved distinction in the arts. Ruby, also an artist, became well known in artistic circles as the wife of the cartoonist/illustrator/journalist Will Dyson. He was married to the famous Australian author Joan Lindsay, writer of Picnic at Hanging Rock. They lived together at Mulberry Hill on the Mornington Peninsula.
Prior to World War I, Daryl became a jackaroo near Collarenebri and later served in the war in France. In England he became a medical artist for the AIF. He made many contacts in the art world and studied at the Slade School of Art in London.
Returning to Australia he became fascinated with the first tour, 1936-1937, of the Ballets Russes to Australia - '(Colonel W. de Basil's) Monte Carlo Russian Ballet' — sketching them in performances and during rehearsals He later published a book of his sketches, Back stage with the Covent Garden Russian ballet, and illustrated Arnold Haskell's Dancing round the world: memoirs of an attempted escape from ballet.
In 1940, he became a curator at the National Gallery of Victoria, becoming director from 1942 to 1956. He also became a member of the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board in 1953. He died on Christmas Day 1976, in Mornington, Victoria.
[edit] Publications
- Daryl Lindsay, Back stage with the Covent Garden Russian ballet (Sydney: s.n., 1938?).
- F. Philipp and J. Stewart (eds.), In honour of Daryl Lindsay: essays and studies (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1964).
